Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following a bad storm in the evening, Nickerson and Patterson started for the summit on July 9, as the other three were to wait for a few hours before their ascent. A storm blew up, the trio was left below, and Nickerson and Patterson were caught near the summit. They made their way later through 50-mile-an-hour winds (at -5 or -10 degrees) with minimum visibility...
Many experts will wait till mid-November before unleashing their superlatives. By that time, they will be able to say with more certainty whether 1961 will be the year of Mae West-or Edna May Oliver...
...career, including the years of his presidency (1797-1801). Unfortunately, the editors failed to provide any commentary bridging sections of the diary, faithfully left in reams of material that glaze the eye of the nonhistorian. To fill in the gaps and round out the man, readers will have to wait until the editors of The Adams Papers publish John Adams' witty, newsy letters as part of the 20 volumes or so that will be devoted to family correspondence...
...wait just one cotton-pickin' minute: How much can one team take...
Brazil's harassed new President Joao Goulart sent a letter saying that he could not possibly get around to opening the exhibition before the end of the month; but those in charge of the sixth Sao Paulo Bienal decided not to wait to announce the prizewinners. The art world was impatiently waiting; the Bienal ranks with the Venice Biennale and the Carnegie International Art show in Pittsburgh as tops in prestige. And this year the Sao Paulo show is huge: 4,000 works by 1,049 artists from 51 nations-much too much to be absorbed...