Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday's game showed that Murphy will have to wait a little longer before he can call the maturation process complete. The numbers imply an improvement from last week, when the Crimson gave up six sacks to Holy Cross. The numbers are wrong...
...town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods. Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee. The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu. There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants...
...look forward to parent-teacher conferences about as much as I do to periodontal surgery. The night before conference day, I usually have one of those dreams in which I'm in fifth grade playing dodge ball--naked. At my kid's school, we parents wait our turn in the hallway, drinking decaf and trying to hide our anxiety behind our briefcases. When I'm ushered into the classroom, I wedge myself into a Lilliputian desk. Mrs. Widget smiles down with practiced patience. She begins. Nine minutes later, it's all over, and we're shaking hands. By the time...
Despite the letdowns, my TV adventure in cyberspace was worth it. It's fun to discover something that's just starting to take off. And who knows? This fall Party of Five may have to wait. I'm more excited about the next episode of Redemption High...
...small town--not a big online demographic. Today Heilig has a modest informational website, where customers can print coupons and find stores but not shop. "We're not certain that anyone has got a profitable business model yet in this industry, and so we're taking a wait-and-see attitude," explains Brian Hopping, a Heilig spokesman...