Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicious circle of the system allows the former renter to outbid the Indians when the lease expires and take over the hacienda as soon as it becomes profitable once more. The renter waits for the Indians to accept the tempting agricultural aid that several organizations offer--which would increase prosperity in the community, hence assuring a return to serfdom. Caught in this system, these Indians are afraid to act and wait quietly for an opportunity to change. Should revolution sweep Peru, as many observers feel it soon will, these are some of the people with nothing to lose and everything...
...Prime Minister has reshuffled his cabinet, but he remains deliberately inscrutable to a party that wants to win a general election, and to a Government that must settle the unfamiliar and uncomfortable question of the Common Market. Uneasy and uncertain as it is, the new Conservative team must wait for Mr. Macmillan to make up his mind...
...city's outer fringes, the classic form of Soviet bloc frontier barrier is rising swiftly; here is row after row of barbed wire strung on concrete posts, and behind the wire are the wide plowed strips of earth visible at all times to the guards who wait with searchlights and machine guns in the squat, brown-painted wooden watchtowers near...
Free to do anything you choose Free to wait tables and shine shoes. Gee, Officer Krupke is a touching, light-hearted tribute to those municipal marvels-magistrates, civil service psychiatrists, social workers, policemen on the beat-who so often, without even trying, are able to develop a mere juvenile delinquent into a mature criminal. But West Side Story goes wildly, insufferably wrong when it insists that society is entirely guilty, that the teen-age hoodlums are ultimately innocent. Worse yet, the picture becomes wildly, immorally sentimental when it attempts the apotheosis of alley rats, broadly suggesting that they...
...serious enterprise is beginning. In five years, perhaps four, Bunting hopes to have completed both a new House, on the corner of Linnaean and Garden, and the study center. Plans for both are quite tentative, but the search for an architect is now in progress, and construction will not wait upon the raising of funds...