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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, I have time only for work, just go home and watch TV, then go to sleep. I am too tired to read newspaper. I have no time to meet girls. I do everything. I clean the floor, the windows. I do the kitchen work. I wait on tables. But it is O.K. In Hong Kong I never get a chance to save money and become my own boss. It is very good to be your own boss. You get the profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Immigrants: Still the Promised Land | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...first the rich with their bank accounts and crated furniture, finally barefoot fishermen in tiny dinghies. Even now, with no direct transportation between Cuba and the U.S., some 300 refugees, many of them old and sick, fly to Madrid every week. There, usually living on charity, they have to wait at least three months, often much longer, while five harassed U.S. officials try to process their papers. (Foundry Operator Victor Valles Solan, who took off last week, had waited two years for clearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Immigrants: Still the Promised Land | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...garb, will be held between shows at the Kings Island entertainment center in Ohio, where Paul Revere (his real name) will be performing. The couple met five years ago on July 4, and "that's why we chose the date for our wedding," claims the groom-to-be. Wait, there's more: officiating at the ceremony will be the Rev. Gene Skipworth of Cincinnati, who will perform the honors dressed in an Uncle Sam costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1976 | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...time had come. In the 15 months since Lexington and Concord, the colonial psychology has changed profoundly. Radicals like Boston's Samuel Adams and other revolutionary leaders played a canny waiting game, delaying the call for outright independence until popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...author has observed that Rome fell because of "the inevitable effect of immoderate greatness," adding that the question should not be why the empire collapsed, but how it managed to subsist for so long. Such epigrams amuse, but do not edify; for fuller explanations, the reader will have to wait for the concluding volumes of this profound and ambitious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lessons in Decay | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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