Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wise man living in a golden cage." She warns, "Be careful, wise man. We of the favelas are the cats. And we are hungry." One time a favela woman knocked on a rich woman's door, Carolina recalls. "The senhora of the house told her to wait. Soon she returned with a wrapped package." The beggar woman carried the bundle back to her hovel and eagerly opened it. Inside were two dead rats...
...joined him in emotional mass renditions of the Marseillaise. But back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open on her side. Frenchmen will not have to wait very much longer to find out if the monarch to whom they confided their destiny at a critical time has really been able to change the course of history or if . . . like so many others, he has only put off the inevitable day of reckoning...
...condemned Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic for aggression and called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican sugar to the U.S. The Senate obligingly voted unrestricted authority to the President, but the House capriciously insisted that he would have to wait until the OAS members formally invoked sanctions. In a schizoid mood, neither House nor Senate would budge, and the new sugar bill died with the Congress. Ike was left with two possible recourses: 1) to invoke special emergency powers to permit him to cut off the sugar...
...Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. At 13, lie was standing at his Grandfather Abdullah's side when a Palestinian fanatic shot and killed the old King before a mosque. His first and characteristic impulse last week was to rush straight to the scene. Aides urged him to wait. Even as they argued, a second bomb went off at the Premier's office. Total casualties: eleven dead, 43 wounded...
...elections must be canceled!" The crowd roared back: "We agree! We agree!'' White-robed and heavily bearded, bent by his 90 years, Ayatollah Mohammed shuffled slowly across the garden on the arms of two aides. "Shall we shut down the bazaar?'' shouted the crowd. "Wait." answered Ayatollah Mohammed...