Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
Barry's trial is set to resume this week. No matter how his legal problems are eventually resolved, he plans to play a major role in Washington affairs. In his speech last week he hinted that his supporters should await his signal before choosing among the five Democrats vying to replace him. "I have a vision for this city," said Barry. Then, borrowing one of Jackson's more memorable lines, he added, "God is not through with...
...approach the end of the 20th century, we must recognize that we are one civilization. This simple but important truth should tell us a great deal about international politics and international relations. There must be a balance of interests; otherwise new upheavals await us. To accept the idea of mutual security means abandoning the idea of "world leadership," which implies supremacy over others...
...them. As the cold war wanes and the Warsaw Pact unravels, Congress and the Bush Administration have begun to plan for the most substantial reductions in military spending since the end of the Vietnam War. As they do, U.S. military suppliers from Los Angeles to Long Island nervously await decisions on which of their programs will be slashed or eliminated...
Similar pitfalls await other writers and publishers who help themselves to unpublished sources. This month St. Martin's Press recalled reviewers' galleys of Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination after Bellow objected to portions that were partly based on his letters, including some he wrote to author Ruth Miller. "I'm having a little trouble with that one," the Nobel laureate told the Chicago Tribune, referring to the book. So is Miller, a friend of the novelist for more than 50 years...