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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examined his own attitudes, and he believes fervently that his background and his heart-religiously, intellectually-would never allow him to turn away from Israel. What to do? Speak out in indignation against the intransigence of Menachem Begin? Or quietly go back to Camp David and talk and wait? Even while suffering dramatic domestic political losses, Carter comes down on the side of patience-the essence of courage for these hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: We Argue About Courage Again | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

When agents began to question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...least 30,000 troops) were held back. They were apparently arrayed in a crescent-shaped defense line that stretched from Yen Bai on the Red River in the west to Quang Yen on the east coast. Their mission: to defend the coastal plain surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong, and wait for the Chinese to show their hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...There is the argument that publicity has more effect than facts," J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, said last week, adding "we'll just have to wait and see what it does to the numbers...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...dying to wait two hours to get good seats to watch your favorite group, and your favorite group happens to be Ultravox, go directly to the Paradise on March 2 or 3. Ultravox has a fascinating sound. "We're more interested in noise than any specific form of music," a spokesman for the group has said. Apparently, noise "prompts" the audience to show "emotion" and then "clap" their "hands...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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