Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciple families, "no" is said as lovingly as "yes." The children learn to wait; the parents refuse to buy them this or that until they prov e themselves mature enough to use it wisely. Allowances are given not as a dole, but to train children in budgeting necessary expenses. Little girls are not pushed into premature dating; the parents couldn't care less that "everybody else does it." Girls are not given contraceptives because sex is not put in a bag; the girls first want to become women, and are secure enough not to have to prove themselves...
Time was when a woman expected to wait until ripe middle age before she was presented with a mink coat-if she got one at all. "Today," says Sam Mellon, manager of Chicago's Evans Furs, "they're buying them at 19 or 20." One of the reasons is that mink coats, formerly the badge of the successful matron (or mistress), have succumbed to the youth-oriented trend in fashion. Coats are now short, shaped to the body and sometimes come pieced together to create checks, stripes and herringbone patterns...
...asked to by the user; with the second, efficient use of the computer requires htat the user assemble problems of just the right size, and feed them in at just the right rate. For the student or Faculty member submitting a question downstairs at the Computer Center, a wait of two or three hours is usual...
...long search for a new transit site has badly hurt the Library and the University. Both have several million dollars tied up in the project, and, while they are forced to wait, costs are rising. People across the country who have donated money to the Library are growing impatient and disillusioned. Worst, of all, the Library and its educational facilities, of great value to historians and political scientists alike, cannot be used...
Swan & Symbol. As a result, the hotel missed an avalanche of yen during the 1964 Olympics. With the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka coming up, the hotel's crusty president, Tetsuzo Inumaru, 80, decided to wait no longer. Early last month he announced that the old Imperial would be demolished, except for its 1958 annex of 550 rooms, to make way for a modern 18-story hotel with 1,000 additional rooms. Protests, editorials and cables from abroad poured in. The influential architect Kiyoshi Higuchi called the old Imperial "a swan afloat on a lake." Young Japanese...