— A day after an explosive fireball cratered the sprawling Dixie Crystal sugar refinery, the anchor of this small community for decades, families of missing workers waited in a Catholic church across the street on Friday as rescue workers tried to determine the human toll.
Then, as she waited in a packed church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for her future husband to meet her at the altar, the best man arrived with the worst news 20 minutes after the wedding was to have started: her would-be spouse would be not appearing because he was calling the wedding off.
Wait in a strategic location.
In our little postwar house, one county over from 407, my mother cooked Sunday dinner while my sister and I had to wait in our church clothes, knowing our friends were outside playing.
-The district attorney's office sent 2,500 notices to people with summonses and warrants, inviting them to the program; the rest were walk-ins, waiting in a heated tent outside the church.
DeWitt stood thinking as we waited in a stone garden outside the church (he said he wanted to make sure Glass and his wife got off safely in their car before he left).
We've all been sitting in a movie, waiting in a line, or sleeping in church, only to be annoyed by a dumb ringtone.
On Monday night, Pemberton waits in the church with a BearScare six-volt Superbeam.
His benefits have been stopped for reasons that are not clear to him, and he faces the prospect of a three-mile walk home again, with no food and no money, until volunteers agree to let him join the crowd of 30 people still waiting in the church's cafe, and promise to find him something to take away.
I'm reminded of a woman I met during the L.R.A.'s reconciliation tour in the northern town of Gulu, who waited in front of a church one long afternoon to shake the hand of a former rebel who was inside.
