Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Beatty, who had heard about the script in a Paris conversation with Truffaut. Beatty found Benton and Newman in New York City, liked their work enough to wait out the original producers' option, then bought the property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
...Coop's administrators said they did not plan to increase their security arrangements. "We'll wait until next June's inventory to make sure this wasn't a fluke," said Morrill...
...banker told Cross to wait, by himself, on a street corner in Old Beirut that night. Ignoring his disappointment at having to miss Beirut night life, Cross waited in the narrow streets of the old city. He suspected that the people he was meeting thought he had enough money with him to buy their scrolls on the spot and didn't quite know what they were planning to do with...
Wagers While-U-Wait. Gambling is a state monopoly, and the house always wins. The government take is generally 50% or more of total wagers, compared with a maximum 22% in Las Vegas casinos. Grand larceny? No, just good policy, insist party bureaucrats, who never tire of showing off libraries and schools built with gambling profits (more than $133 million a year in Czechoslovakia, $300 million in Poland). They claim that gambling keeps the people happy, draws inflationary currency out of the economy, and often provides a handy way of disposing of unsold factory output as prizes...
...culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give-I'll give") stands for a while-U-wait wager: two dinars (16?) buys a sealed number that, if a winner...