Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not," he said, "try to strong-arm favorite sons who want to wait until the convention before crossing the Rubicon. But of course it could well be that some of them will be reaching the conclusion that they want to get on the team prior to the time that everyone else jumps on. That's the way the political animal works." The pressure, Nixon believes, will now be off him and on the men who lead the delegations -and might want to be remembered favorably in a Nixon administration...
...students sit on the Council, but a vote has to be delayed for one meeting at which time a majority of the Trustees must vote on it. The Board sits again in June but this session is always poorly attended, so the matter will probably have to wait until September...
...Democrats who would be happy to support him later would oppose him now-all these factors militated against a Kennedy move in 1968. His strategy all along had been to take a position slightly to the left of the Administration on virtually every issue, to husband his following, to wait his turn...
...wait. The Beatles' Lady Madonna is no golden oldie, as the disk jocks say-gone from the charts but not from our hearts. It's their latest single, recorded before they went off to meditate in India last month, and released on both sides of the Atlantic last week. It bears the hallmarks of all their most recent work: a deft arrangement, superb engineering, and a lyric (sung by Paul McCartney in what is known as his "Elvis voice") that combines blithe humor with sharp social portraiture of a hard-pressed mother...
...engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...