Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find out from students using the library," Alevizos said, "that they aren't getting good service--if they have to wait more than two to five minutes for a book-- then we'll look into the matter." Alevizos said that Lamont has sufficient funds to hire additional staff if, and when, the student demand requires...
...dispute unraveled rapidly thereafter. McCoy refused to wait for a hearing and 250 of the district's 350 teachers walked out in protest. When a black arbiter ruled this summer that the teachers should be allowed to return to their posts, McCoy, instead of capitulating, added 100 teachers who had struck the previous spring to the list of instructors unacceptable to the community. In the meantime, the governing board hired replacements for the ostracized teachers...
...which expects after 1970 to handle 12,500,000 tons of cargo a year, more than the ports of St. Louis, Memphis, Pittsburgh or St. Paul. The new port is also expected to generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower with the legend PORT CITY OF CATOOSA rising above acre after acre of dry, dusty land...
...Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot, an able but conservative executive who became Citroën's boss ten years ago, has not yet seen fit to modernize old models...
...least composed of flesh and blood. What stands between George Eliot and modern readers, however, is not merely her habit of intrusive and lengthy moralizing but the play of sentiment, which embarrasses perhaps for the very reason that it is so sincere. Richly mixed in, for those who wait to find it, are psychological insights that are penetrating and wittily precise, and an assortment of characters who rise above preposterous plots to lodge indelibly in the mind...