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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one, you can abide by it. Two: Always postpone any deadline-for a week, a day, or even half an hour. Who knows, the situation may change in your favor if only you have the patience to wait. Three: Divide and conquer -both your foes and friends. Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you. Four: Every man has his price. The only problem, therefore, is finding out what the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

State Rep. Thomas Mahoney of Cambridge, who chairs a special legislative committee on the use of the MBTA yard, said yesterday the legislature might wait until after the GSA returns the land to the state to approve the bill giving the GSA the Columbia Point land...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Harvard, State Meet to Plan MBTA Site | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...They desperately need someone to take care of these courts," a diehard racqueteer lamented during her wait yesterday. "The clay courts are all dug up and the asphalt needs complete resurfacing...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...rest of the University's racquet wielders, a mere 17 windswept, lineless courts are available for what enjoyment one can extract after the near-hour wait...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...your grandfathers grandchild--the descendent I may say of a century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait for the hen to lay an egg--do they?--nervous, polite, and now on this foot now on that...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

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