Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After breakfast you retire to the poolroom to pass a little time because you don't want to get to the fieldhouse too early because then you have to sit around forever waiting for the game to start and you just get too nervous when you have to wait around. The problem is, no matter how many games of pool you play and no matter how long you stall going down to the fieldhouse, you still get there with six million hours to go and you have to sit around waiting and getting nervous anyway...
...said if the plan is not changed because of the petition, "We'll have to wait until next year, and see how students feel about having to walk through the snow...
THAT SPRING, Long John and Bentley spent a great deal of time watching Kojak. They had plenty of opportunity: every other day, it seemed, the listings in the Globe announced another Telly Savalas rerun on late night TV. So they would seat themselves in Bentley's Tower room and wait. At the end of the news at eleven, Jack Cole (a neo-Byronic hero himself, with his own three-piece suits and tough guy act) would make some off-hand comment about the man with the lollipops and then Kojak would appear on the screen...
...Wait 'Til the Fall...
...dinner.' He took a shower like he always did, and we went to dinner with my son and daughter. After dinner, about 8:45 p.m., Frank said he had to see someone who was buying our '74 Cadillac. He said to wait for him at the Golden Coach Restaurant. When he didn't come back by 10 p.m., my son said, 'If I know Dad, he fell asleep in front...