Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught at a grade crossing had to wait ten minutes for the supertrain to pass...
...since 1933 have cautioned fathers and counseled sons on drinking, switched pictures to a teenage daughter. "But, Daddy," she pleaded, "if I don't drink, they'll think I'm from nowhere." To which Seagram answered: "Drinking is a pleasure reserved for adults. She can wait...
...corps's seven regiments in Viet Nam. Once in the field, the platoons break down into pairs: one man spots with binoculars, the other handles the rifle. Their favorite stakeouts are the edges of heavily wooded areas with a clear field of fire in front. And there they wait, hour after lonely hour, day after tiring day, camouflaged to their very helmet tops, always on the alert for the slightest distant movement...
They kill the time with intellectual vaudeville-puns, word games, syllogistic oneupmanship. As they do so, it becomes apparent that Stoppard owes fully as much to Samuel Beckett as he does to Shakespeare. R. and G. are transparent replicas of the two tramps who wait for Godot. But where Beckett's dialogue almost expires in pauses of resignation, Stoppard's lines pant with inner panic. Delivered with comic ardor at machine-gun speed, R. and G.'s interchanges combine mental verve with spiritual desolation. It is as if the quiz kids of Wittenberg U. found themselves desperate...
...green" will take on the "tiny Crimson" up by the Stadium, behind the baseball field. Coach Dana Getchell's Harvard frosh--with superstars Solomon Gomez and Peter Bogovich doing all the scoring--whipped Exeter, 4-1, on Wednesday, and will be out to dispel all the "Wait till next year" talk of Dartmouth soccer circles...