Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets lost, or your wife gets moody on the phone." There is no time for boredom. Some sit in seclusion in locked-door study rooms, poring over target data (they never discuss targets with other crews; no crew knows the target of another). And all the time they wait for the horn. There is no itchy tension: their sharp reflexes have been honed by intense training, their character hardened by one of SAC's most successful ingredients-motivation...
What makes Phong Savan different from innumerable other thatch-roofed Laotian villages is the comfortable Inn of the Snow Leopard, built in the form of a hunting lodge. Last month the boys were gathering at the Snow Leopard to sip their pastis, discuss business conditions, and wait for the tribesmen on their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit...
...himself and inscribed MASON TARWATER, WITH GOD. Old Mason tried it out when he finished it, but his belly protruded, and young Francis coolly remarked: "It's too much of you for the box. I'll have to sit on the lid to press you down or wait until you rot a little." Now the boy is digging the grave, and it is hard work. More than that, his secret resentments against the old man rise to the level of passion. For the old man was a windy man of God, a self-proclaimed "prophet" who raised...
Though the temporary moratorium on nuclear tests ended Dec. 31, President Eisenhower has made no decision on whether to resume the shots. The temptation is to wait for the summit meetings in May, just as the U.S. waited hopefully for Khrushchev's assurances on nuclear testing at Camp David last summer. But against a backdrop of 15 months of frustration, the great hopes of Geneva are fading fast. The danger is that the real Soviet objective at Geneva is to halt U.S. weapons progress, while giving nothing in return, thus in effect disarming the U.S. by talk. And that...
...better," said the husky white settler from Kenya somewhat plaintively last week, "for us to let the African take the wheel of the bus as long as we can sit by his side and read the map, rather than wait until he throws us out?" For five years ambitious Michael Blundell, 52, head of the moderate New Kenya Group, has been urging his 65,000 fellow whites to accept a multiracial government before the colony's 6,000,000 blacks take over everything themselves. Last week, as the London conference on the future of Kenya was drawing...