Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parade past the grandstand and around the track to the "starting blocks," the unctuous, slightly sinister voice of the announcer calls "Hurry, Hurry, Hurrrry--place your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds wait, flash, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments as the end approaches. The winning number lights up on the board and the favored of fate make their way to the "Collect" windows...
Wide-Open Convention. Romney will have another opportunity to rally the G.O.P. Governors in September, when they join their Democratic counterparts for a floating Governors' convention aboard the cruise ship Independence in the Caribbean. But the Governors seem disposed to wait...
While industry squabbles, prices of new homes are rising-5.5% a year since 1962. Ironically, would-be home buyers who wait for interest rates to fall run a real risk of paying more for their housing...
Harvard's heavyweight crew had to wait three years, but Saturday was the day. The heaviest Crimson heavyweights in history--and one of the youngest--defeated the Vesper Boat Club by two lengths to win the Pan American Trials at Orchard Beach Lagoon...
Real Cohens. Whether or not the building of a new Temple should wait until the Messiah arrives, Jewish theology presents several obstacles to its construction. For one thing, the Law requires that the Temple be administered by Cohens (priests), who are the descendants of Moses' brother Aaron. Yet so many nonpriestly Jews have assumed the name Cohen that rabbinical experts would face a legal nightmare in trying to trace authentic genealogies. For another, the Torah specifies that Temple ritual include daily animal sacrifices-a concept alien to the humane sensitivities of most modern Jews. An even greater obstacle...