Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fail to get firm promises for the choice they make. Says Southern Regional Council Executive Director Leslie Dunbar: "They just haven't learned to cash in on their power yet. It doesn't make any sense in cities like Atlanta, where Negroes have strategic power, to wait until 1962 till Negro policemen can arrest whites." But at least there are Negroes on Atlanta's police force-and the Negro's vote put them there...
When a reporter tried to get in a question. Freeman cut him off imperiously: "Wait a minute, let me finish. I'm making my speech; then you can make yours." He charged the Republicans with "inconsistency" and "total irresponsibility," scalded them for criticizing him as a "czar" who sought "regimentation and centralization. Well, the same people turned around on two different days and voted for a sugar bill and not for a farm bill. And the biggest piece of centralized regimentation in American agriculture is the sugar bill." Furthermore, cried Freeman, "they voted against a farm program that would...
...making all calls, wait for the dial tone, a steady humming sound, before starting to dial. Don't try to dial from memory. Keep an eye on the number being called in the directory or write it down where you can see it while dialing...
...businessmen, among them Chairman Avery C. Adams of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., reckoned on increased spending because of the new depreciation allowances. But most companies chose to wait until their accountants calculated just how the new rates would affect them. The prevailing attitude was that of Chairman George S. Dively of Cleveland's Harris-Intertype Corp., who said that even though the reforms "will tend to encourage capital spending, there will be nothing big overnight...
...elections, but that when the next poll-taking rolled around, the people would realize that they would be faced with the prospect of choosing a government and that most people who had left the Conservative sympathies would return. He ended his discussion with the statement that one can only wait and see "what will happen next...