Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberal List. Washington waited in vain for the stop-Kennedy summit meeting. It never came. Neither Symington nor Johnson was willing at this time to bow out in favor of the other; Stevenson was urged to endorse Kennedy, but decided to wait out the results of this week's Oregon primary, where all hopefuls-including Oregon's own Wayne Morse-are entered. In the lull, United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, political shop steward of Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, came out for Kennedy. So did Humphreyman Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action...
...Nikita shook his fist and cried: "Impudence! Sheer impudence! There was a time-I remember it from my youth-when many criminals and other suspicious elements roamed the world. These people sometimes resorted to the following trick: a bandit with a small boy would hide under a bridge and wait for someone to cross it. The bandit would send the boy to the passerby, and the boy would say, 'Hello, mister, give me back my watch . . .' Then the armed bandit would appear, and tell the passerby: 'Why do you bully the boy? Give him back his watch...
...dissenting communique of their own. New Zealand's Walter Nash made his feelings clear by publicly stating: "There are no inherently superior people-none." At the moment, few Commonwealth Prime Ministers want to throw South Africa out of the club. The member nations seem ready to wait a year or 18 months until their next meeting in the hope that mounting world pressures will bring changes in South Africa. But if apartheid continues full blast and the Union takes the promised step of becoming a republic, it will almost certainly be blackballed when it seeks permission to remain...
First briefly introduced in full-dress uniform under waving flags, amid the sound of military trumpets and carefully cued hoyden screams, he had to wait for his big moment until later in the show, just after John Cameron Swayze had pulled a heartily ticking Timex watch out of the mouth of a Miami Beach porpoise...
...after day, a procession of noble sitters would parade through his studio, and some were willing to wait as long as 20 years for their portraits to be finished...