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Word: awaited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building plans for the gym are finished and are sitting neatly rolled up in a corner of President Horner's office. Radcliffe officials now only await a vote on the down-zoning petition to limit Harvard's building space that over a hundred Observatory Hill residents signed last spring. Yet whether or not the Council passes the petition, Radcliffe could still build the gym, since it fits the strictest zoning regulations...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: A Waning Battle? | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...elite commando unit of West Germany's Border Protection Force. Thirty members of the unit left immediately for Cyprus aboard a Lufthansa 707, Flight 1231. But Flight 1231, in a near miss, arrived at Larnaca just as Flight 181 was taking off. Flight 1231 flew to Ankara to await further instructions, while the hijacked plane flew on to Bahrain and Dubai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror and Triumph at Mogadishu | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...role, planting a well-aimed globule of spit on Davis's face, and he joins the blacks and Hispanics in systematically tormenting Davis. Dubbed "Short Eyes" for his crime, Davis swiftly sinks to the status of an outcast among society's outcasts; his fate now effectively sealed, you only await the execution of the witchhunt ritual against...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Honor Among Thieves | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

...meantime, the demand for Work-Study students far outstrips the supply: For every undergraduate who has been accepted to the program, three jobs await him or her in the basement of Byerly Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tight Fall Budget | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the steering wheel, and several speeders have crashed through a fence). After buying tickets ($1.25 a lap) and getting instructions on safety regulations and the operation of the car, drivers buckle into Bell helmets and safety belts to await the red, amber and green signal light at the starting line. There is no wheel-to-wheel competition: each car is electronically released, at nine-second intervals, if the track is clear. But when the light turns green and the engine revs up for the first sneaky curve, it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Mans for the Masses | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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