Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing to express my astonishment at the rapidity with which Mr. Alexander's recommendations regarding Corporation appointments are being implemented. I am curious about the new procedures by which I have been appointed special assistant to Mr. Pusey. In any case, I accept. Shall I wait to hear from the Corporation or report immediately for work (which, I gather from the statement I am supposed to have made, will include an assessment of the criteria by which ad hoc committees made appointments to the Faculty...
...retrospect, Humphrey believes that he might have made more headway with Eugene McCarthy's dissidents if he had spoken out sooner on Viet Nam. Even before the convention, he had a speech ready saying that he might try a bombing halt if elected. But he was persuaded to wait until the end of September by advice from Paris that an earlier announcement might have hampered the peace talks. Humphrey, unlike many supporters and pollsters, does not believe that a few more days of campaigning would have brought him the victory. He feels that he received nearly all the votes...
...rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from the majority group that rules the party. The country could only wait until the Christian Democrats settled their power struggle, but in the end another center-left coalition seemed to be the only solution...
...predecessor, Floyd Wilson, preferred to wait for the good shot to open up and was willing to pass the ball around the periphery for minutes at a time if necessary. In contrast, Harrison, a former NBA All-Star, stresses motion towards the ball and towards the basket...
...committees. We sent the proposal to the CEP and Committee on Houses (COH) and crossed our fingers. In time, both groups sent back ambiguous letters of rejection; and they invited us in to talk about it. We could do nothing except change our minds and agree with them or wait a year and try again. Doing either meant abdicating our responsibility to the student body. Yet the alternative was confrontation politics, something that the HUC, which acts with its hands rather than its feet, could not pull off. As long as we allow the faculty and administration the prerogative...