Word: awaited
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...slim, white-haired statesman of 71. He has referred to his quarter-century behind bars as "long, lonely, wasted years." The tinge of bitterness is understandable, but the years were not entirely wasted. He has been planning a long time for this day, and blacks -- and many whites -- eagerly await his guiding hand to lead the nation toward a resolution of their racial antagonism...
...unanimously think it has become obsolete. It has no meaning," Central Committee member Vladimir P. Anishchev told reporters who gathered outside the Kremlin's Spasky Gate to await news. The session was closed to journalists...
...Germans fled or were expelled, but hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans remain. In a series of postwar treaties, including the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, signed by 35 states, West Germany has promised not to challenge the new frontiers of Europe. But Bonn insists that final agreement must await a peace treaty formally ending the war, a step that the cold war prevented...
...armed forces suffered budget cutbacks. Securitate members were indoctrinated to equate Ceausescu's well-being with their own and were rewarded with lavish perks. Even after the revolutionary government last week threatened to execute Securitate members found at large, many remained defiant. The few who surrendered were imprisoned, to await trial by the new government...
Whether Gorbachev succeeds or not matters immensely to his people and the world. But the world should not need to await the outcome of what he is trying to do to see the significance of what he has already done: he has accelerated history, making possible the end of one of its most disreputable episodes, the imposition of a cruel and unnatural order on hundreds of millions of people. Sooner or later, their despair and defiance would have reached critical mass. But the explosion occurred this year, much sooner and more spectacularly than anyone had predicted, because the people...