Word: waits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Between 1925 and 1930, Miró tried dozens of different ways to express "the spirit of the thing." Some ornate fantasies, like The Harlequin's Carnival, became popular immediately, but others had to wait decades for their audiences. His 1930 Painting is as elemental and totemic as a mobile by Calder -or any painting that would be turned out by New York's abstract expressionists in the 1950s...
Though he never got a degree, he took courses at Los Angeles City College, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to study, and began preparing himself for more complicated tasks. He did not have to wait long. He made sergeant in 1945, lieutenant in 1949, captain in 1953. After he was made deputy chief in 1960, he revamped the department's record-keeping system, modernized communications, and set up new cost-accounting methods. More and more, he began to speak for ailing Chief William Parker...
...against self-incrimination would not be violated by disciplinary hearings, he said. There was no requirement to say anything at the hearings. Nor should the hearings be delayed until after any criminal proceedings. "A motor-vehicles commissioner, authorized to suspend a driver's license for speeding, need not wait for the months or years of a negligent homicide prosecution...
...forests, rice fields and marsh es that ring Saigon, they wait. No one in the city knows exactly when they will come again, but everyone expects them. Saigon is bracing for a new on slaught by Communist troops, fearing that this time it may be even more pro longed and vicious than either the Tet or early May offensives. High-level defectors have said that a major Communist drive is in the making, and last week's relative silence on the battleground around the capital ominously underscored the point. As always when girding for a big campaign, the Communists...
...SPOCK: "Johnson is still hoping to win, at the negotiating table, what he has been unable to win on the battle-field. From what I have seen, I don't think Johnson is prepared to offer anything to the Vietnamese. And while we wait, 1000 or 2000 Americans are dying every month in Vietnam. The conference is a very ingenious way to take the pressure off himself [Johnson] and Vice-President Humphrey, and it takes some of the wind out of McCarthy's sails...