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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power in Greece. I say it was best to clean house now instead of later. You see, this is a long-range cleaning up, but the end result should be shining and new and for the better. It is better to have a temporary lack of freedom than to wait until the Communists are too powerful. Greece is not in the best economic condition and is ripe for preying Communists. Don't worry about Melina Mercouri and her sentiments; let her remain an actress and do well economically and let the government do well and save the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...tell of new ways to solve racial trouble in the cities, especially Detroit's example (among others), expenditure of $27 million this year for employment centers, clinics, etc. We Southerners wait with bated breath for your next installment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...sonatas until their ripest years. Barenboim had learned them at 14, played them in a cycle of concerts in London last spring, and is now recording them all on the Angel label. "If you could work to an ideal interpretation, then you'd have to wait to record everything on the day before you die," he says. "All music is something that's made at a certain time. And it doesn't get better by being left in a drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Beyond Dexterity | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

Confidence & Cooperation. Credit for Europoort's amazing progress rests squarely with Rotterdam's politicians and businessmen. Rather than wait for a blessing by the national government at The Hague, they have gone ahead with plans in a fait accompli fashion. Last year, for example, the Rotterdammers decided to deepen the port's sea channel to accommodate tankers up to 225,000 tons (present capacity is 130,000). The first of these giants is expected at the end of this year, and the entire project should be completed by late 1969. Typically, by the time The Hague gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Working While Waiting | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...Would-be customers are willing to wait eight weeks for delivery and pay up to $4,375 for the privilege of whizzing along no-speed-limit German autobahns at 100 m.p.h. and more. "BMW drivers drive like hell," says a company official. The drivers include Actor Peter Ustinov, Politicians Franz-Josef Strauss and Rainer Barzel, as well as the Swiss police. Above all, a widening circle of modern Germans on the go, professional men and young executives embrace it as the "Auto for Men," their symbol of class and style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: New Class on the Autobahn | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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