Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the day, at 2 p.m., voters waited for more than an hour at the Brookside Congregational Church in ward one, the only heavily Republican ward in the city. Margaret Lessard, a Democrat, said she waited an hour and 15 minutes to vote. She attributed the wait to the lack of Democratic voting machines--only three were available, as opposed to seven Republican booths...
...UMass administration is adopting a "wait-and-see" position on the issue of student unionization. "I don't think we have a position of being for or against it," said Robert W. Gage, vice-chancellor for student affairs at the campus...
...Austrians did not have to wait long for their first payoff for playing host to the show. On the opening morning of competition, Native Son Franz Klammer, 22, flew down the downhill course, approaching 90 m.p.h. at one point, to win the gold medal. It was a rough, reckless run. Said Klammer, "I thought I was going to crash...
...when Frye left Harvard, things returned pretty much to normal; the intellectual battlelines remained sharply defined. If some of the combatants wavered in their beliefs, they still fought on. The redemption would have to wait a second coming...
...will probably be a long wait. Not only Lockheed but the entire U.S. commercial aircraft industry is in such a deep slump that there is no market for surplus planes. Worldwide deliveries of U.S.-made jetliners tumbled from 332 planes in 1974 to 282 last year. Jumbo jets, the big-ticket items, led the dive. McDonnell Douglas (revenues through September 1975: $2.6 billion) sold 14 of its DC-10s in 1974, but got orders for only eleven in the first nine months of 1975. Boeing ($2.7 billion through September) watched its sales of 747s drop from...