Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the younger generation, I say it's not all right to be second in space, to lose Cuba to Communism, and to appear foolish to the world. What do we have to do, wait to be blown from our rocking chairs...
...indeed very noticeable. This goes particularly for Madeline Rosten and Anna Kay Moses, the only women, switch about genially from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with...
...Republican fight had taken time; the censure agitation had consumed two full meetings. While each side could point to victories, the Council was clearly the loser. A day after the Council seemed to have settled its temporary internal disturbances, Dunster's Bill Bailey decided he "could wait no longer" for it to get moving again. In fact, decided Bailey, the present Council could never get moving properly. To "dramatize" his unhappiness with the present system, Bailey asked Dunster men to withdraw their representatives. A whopping 82 per cent of the House backed him up. Although the action was in many...
...built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened discipline and led his party in onslaught after onslaught against the Socialists. Those were the long years when no Belgian party could win more than the slimmest majority in Parliament, and the nation fell into a paralyzing attitude of attentisme (wait-and-seeism). In the March elections, both major parties lost ground to extremists of left and right...
...Very Odd Specimen. Even in his person, he tried to be true to the "new spirit." One day in Paris, a friend of the painter Fernand Leger said to Leger: "Just wait. You're about to see a very odd specimen. He goes bicycling in a derby hat." Leger waited. "A few minutes later," he recalled, "I saw coming along, very stiff, completely in silhouette, an extraordinary mobile object under the derby hat with spectacles and a dark suit. He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective. The picturesque personage was none other than the architect Le Corbusier...