Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade sees it and begins to wait, "That cockroach is going to live longer than I am!" "Now," Meeker says, after performing his own little execution, "you've got the edge...
...wrote Carter: "We have identified 20 priority targets for organization and have liaison teams to go into the departments after the election. The question is whether the teams should begin before you have appointed the new department Secretary. There is a strong case to be made that we should wait." Carter's answer, scribbled in blue ink in the margin, was crisp and clear: "We won't wait. If leader is identified, good; if not, let's move...
Poutasse said he decided to wait four weeks before renting a truck to collect the papers so there would be enough for a large pick-up. But he also said he did not have enough time in the beginning of the year to organize the program...
...October, the Herald got the story of the departure of Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. DiGrazia to Rockville, Maryland, and quickly made it the lead story in their Monday paper. When the early edition hit the streets around 11 p.m., the reaction was skeptical: "Remember the Yale story, just wait to see what the Globe has," said most local editors. At the Globe, however, editors decided to keep the DiGrazia story out of the first editions--thereby not allowing the Herald enough time to use the story. DiGrazia did resign, and the Herald's reputation began to improve...
...looking ahead to more work of an official sort, or savoring the simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state, directed the battle in the trenches from afar...