At a long-shut United States Air Force base, women who were about to graduate from a business-computing course looked one day like a congeries of Whistler's mothers: clad in black plastic hairdresser's capes with white tab collars, they waited tight-lipped for their waist-long hair to be snipped into blunt cuts and bangs.
Just about 10 years ago, the Condé Nast publishing company moved into 4 Times Square, and newly minted No Parking signs declared that the spaces out front were reserved for "FHVs" — that is, they were the exclusive domain of for-hire vehicles, the black town cars that waited in tight ranks for the company's senior officials.
The rest of the roses bided their time, waiting in tight bud for the sunlight and heat of a normal June.
I know there are a few who say that we should have sat tight, waited for our opponents to fall out and brought in a minority government.
He put his hands over his face, drew his legs up tight, and waited to die.
As the crowds waited to pass through tight security, a woman peddled $2 American flags and buttons that said "Mission Accomplished".
"From a position of strength, Derbyshire lost five wickets for 75 to end the day behind the game as the Gloucestershire bowlers kept things tight and waited for mistakes".
But to occupational health experts who've waited years for the tighter rules, the new delay casts a cloud of uncertainty over their future.
Ortiz kept faith through it all, his blue-and-orange cap pulled tight, waiting for the Knicks to honor his devotion.
Meanwhile, the list of accidents innocents bombed, aircraft lost grows longer, and Slobodan Milosevic sits tight, waiting for cracks to open in the western alliance.In fact, the alliance is holding together, just.
Thorn will sit tight, waiting for a player to slip through the cracks whom he can grab for a low paycheck to fill out his bench and hoping that Martin does not receive an offer out of the Nets' range.
