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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could kill whoever is doing it. I am asking that this process be stopped immediately." But on March 3 the manager, Frances Sweeney, denied my grievance, claiming that this method of cutting the ice cream cylinders is "a normal procedure" and "a long standing practice." Do they have to wait until the knife slips some day and stabs someone in the stomach before they put a stop to this...

Author: By Sherman L. Holcombe, | Title: Blows Against the Empire | 4/6/1976 | See Source »

Repeating his original role as Pickering, Higgins' bachelor buddy, Robert Coote is delightful, and George Rose is "loverly" as Eliza's earthily vulgar father. The Lerner-Loewe score is incomparable, and the opening-night audience could scarcely wait for the first bar to applaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Loverly | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Then Patty Hearst was led out of the courtroom to wait while the jurors began to discuss and debate her claim that she had been compelled to commit the crime. It did not take the jury long to decide that Patty, alias Tania, was not telling the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Verdict on Patty: Guilty as Charged | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...arguable that having upper-class youths work as plumbers' assistants contributes in some small way to a healthy lowering of class and economic barriers. Further, young people who have to wait to find work learn patience and open-mindedness. For one thing, the reflexive antipathy many students once felt toward the corporate world has vanished as they learn where the jobs are. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that underemployed graduates benefit from the enforced delay in making career choices. "Doing a lower-level job is not so bad," says he, "so long as it's well-paying enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: Slim Pickings for the Class of '76 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...follow the love-them-and-leave-them tradition. But male blue crabs, or "jimmies," take good care of their mates. After car rying them in a soft embrace during the mating ritual, jimmies form protective cages around the "sooks," or mature females, as they shed their old shells and wait for new skeletons to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Crabs and Men | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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