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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shcharansky trial has proved again that Henry Kissinger's detente was a stillborn child. Previous Administrations did what Christ warned against 2,000 years ago. Kissinger saw the Soviet wolf scrambling into a sheepskin and sat down to wait for it to eat grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1978 | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...therapeutic abortions for fear of malformed births. Since then the birth rate in Seveso has dropped sharply. Building Contractor Ugo Basilico, 41, father of a six-year-old son, explains the sad reason why: "I thought it was about time we had another child, but the doctor says better wait a while. If you have a baby with some defect, the baby is there for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poisoned Suburb | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...rushing to place their own orders and thus secure favorable delivery positions. And they would have been crowing about how they were going to create the biggest, all-new, best-everything fleet in the world. So what happened this time? Nothing?so far. U.S. airline chiefs are playing a wait-and-see game. They claim that they will not order new aircraft simply as a reaction to this summer's sudden and unexpected surge. Explains Pan Am's Seawell: "If you buy new capacity for marginally priced traffic, you don't really get an adequate return on your investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Crowded Skies | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...cause of hygiene," boomed the p.a. at Gatwick, "we ask that waiting passengers not leave their cups and cutlery on the floor." Gatwick's beige linoleum quickly disappeared under a carpet of bright beach blankets and polyester sleeping bags. Bodies were everywhere-standing, sitting, lying on the floor. The wait for toilets was 20 minutes and for a cup of tea, half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marooned Terminal Children | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Cheri I--Dalton St.--Heaven Can Wait, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. Cheri II--Foul Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

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