Once they are alone, they wait for the prisoner to rise to her feet.

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At last impatient, anger had not allowed a woman who had waited too long to wait, again, until she was alone: they sensed enough of truth in that.

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In March the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, announced that his city could not wait for such help from elsewhere and will go it alone.

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As important as this commission is, our fiscal challenge is too great to be solved with any one step alone, and we can't we wait to act.

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The name alone is enough to raise eyebrows, but wait until you see the special features: a biorhythm calculator, a fatness function that calculates a user's height-to-weight ratio, a calendar for keeping track of your menstrual cycle and a calorie-counting function.

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Rifles slung over their shoulders, each moved off alone through the forest to the hiding places where they would lay low and wait.

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