Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really love America, and I know you love America, then watch as the Wallace Girls come down the aisles and wait upon you." We all knew what the Wallace Girls were for, we all shut up. "Now the Wallace Girls who are waiting upon you, have petitions which make you official Wallace fund-raisers," the man said. Still silence...
...think we're a violent nation now, just wait until our young children grow up. My childhood was neuter dolls, chutes and ladders, and Little Lulu. Today's childhood is erotic dolls, authentic replicas of war guns (complete with vivid sounds) and a Saturday morning TV listing with enough sadism and murder to give even the most hardened criminal ideas...
...believe that it is rather unseemly to leap so hastily to the conclusion that the motive of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin derives from his virulent Arab nationalism, as you imply [June 14]. Let us wait and see what the trial will disclose-if it takes place; for another accident may occur. In any case, the fact remains that the only three men who since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that...
From all appearances, he is in for a long wait. The campaign can point to some limited successes with the Administration. The Agriculture Department agreed to speed up food relief programs in 256 of the country's poorest counties. The Labor Department hurried a plan to create 100,000 new jobs. The Office of Economic Opportunity found $25 million more for the Head Start school program and emergency food and health care...
...hospital's patient services are as inadequate as its plant. Nurses and aides are in such short supply that the gravely ill sometimes die unnoticed and unattended; fragile premature babies have missed crucial feedings. Surgery patients must wait as long as two months until operating facilities become available. In some minor cases, doctors are known to have used instruments that were just dipped in rusty sinks. On a typical Saturday, the hospital treats 500 emergency patients-nearly twice as many as all of Boston's other hospitals combined-but its scandalous state is so well known to ghetto...