Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While they wait, three-year-old Galo plays with his wooden top. Most young peruanos have tops; resembling a large radish in shape and size, the top is thrown like a yo-yo with a flick of the wrist and spins upright even in an unpaved road...
...appearances, the long wait seemed almost over for Gary Mark Gilmore last week. Just as he had been demanding ever since his conviction two months ago for the murder of a 25-year-old motel clerk in Provo, Utah, Gilmore was being given the right to die. After a steamy two-hour hearing before the state board of pardons, the board voted 2 to 1 to grant the condemned man's plea that he stand "like a man" in front of a firing squad in the first U.S. execution in almost a decade. The following day, District Court Judge...
...thought it was tough to get into Harvard, wait till you're 45 and are trying to get a job with the government. The competition for jobs in the Carter administration is intense these days, and it won't let up until the last deputy assistant secretary for subway car development has been named in a high-noon press conference at the Department of Transportation...
Some--like Daniel P. Moynihan--simply couldn't wait for the Democratic revival, and signed on with the Republicans. Moynihan has since gone on to better things, but now his soon-to-be-ex-colleagues are sitting on their hands waiting for that phone call from somebody with a Georgia accent...
...system." As aroused campesinos in neighboring Sinaloa prepared to occupy vast new acreage last week, Echeverria balked. To avoid a bloody clash between the peasants and landowners, he announced a compromise: only a token 32,000 acres of land would be distributed to farm hands; any further expropriation would wait until the new President took office...