Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shown an eagerness to negotiate with Russia's Khrushchev not always shared by America. Said he now to the publishers: "Our duty is surely simple-to be firm but patient, never to yield and never to give ground, but never to take provocative action ourselves; and to wait maybe one, maybe two generations, maybe more, until in God's good time the ordinary peoples of that vast area [Russia], encouraged by higher standards of material life, begin to look again for that spiritual food, without which man has never lived for prolonged periods since he came into...
...times to go to catch up with Abe Lincoln. As I remember, he ran eight or nine times and was defeated.* Then they elected him President, and then they shot him. It's a hell of a future to look forward to." Come what may, Powell can hardly wait...
...scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron, to decide what to do. Last week the generals made up their minds...
...sensitive but minor novel entitled Now in November, could understand why Miss Johnson won the 1935 fiction prize in a year that also saw publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. Ernest Hemingway had to wait until 1953 to win his first Pulitzer, with The Old Man and the Sea, having previously missed with two American classics (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms). Some of the Pulitzer drama prizes so enraged Broadway critics, e.g., in 1935 Zoe Akins' The Old Maid beat...
...Administration's problems, but it is a first step, most important because it would signify awareness of the immediate problems that must be met. President Pusey has said that he will choose a new Dean of the Faculty "some time this side of the indefinite future." His University cannot wait that long...