Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Personally, I couldn't wait to escape from under the thumbs of these zealots, the grammarians. I find I would much prefer splitting infinitives than hairs...
This President of the U.S. did not wait until he left the White House to write a blockbuster about his Administration. In fact he started work on his memoirs the day he took office, finishing them within a year. Moreover, his aide insisted, "every word...
...country's slim, trim women wear no perfume, jewelry, nail polish, or shadow on their almond eyes; for the most part, they march around in the same austere white shirts, shapeless blue pants and sandals as the menfolk. While early marriage is discouraged (men are urged to wait until they are at least 28, women 25), the People's Republic frowns equally on premarital amour, and the unappetizing national costume seems designed to defuse dalliance...
...wait! Things are changing. Thirty years after its Communist revolution, China may now be ready for the sexual revolution. If so, historians will undoubtedly hail an unreconstructed capitalist as point man in the Great Leap Sexward. The man, naturellement, is Pierre Cardin...
...remembers being buttonholed by a Society member while still an undergraduate. "He had a nervous twitch, and he said to me, 'So you think it's tough being Harvard's goalie, eh?' The guy's a very successful businessman, but he had fire in his eyes. He said, 'Just wait until you get out into the real world'--twitch, twitch--'then you'll see how tough life really is!' I cracked up laughing, and figured if this is what happened to old goaltenders, then I didn't want any part of the Society," says Fitzsimmons...