Word: await
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Japanese occupation, the once prosperous South China port of Swatow (prewar pop. 179,000) was cut off from rice imports, suffered famine. "Coffins were lined up at a certain place by a charitable Buddhist organization, and the people staggered there to lie down in the coffins to await death. In that way, they were sure of some sort of a burial...
...McVay left the courtroom at the Washington Navy Yard to await the verdict, the trial judge advocate, Captain Thomas J. Ryan Jr., a friend of 25 years, said: "Charlie, I want you to know there was nothing personal in this and I wish it had come out the other...
Room reservations in Vanderbilt Hall for out-of-town girls may be obtained at three dollars each until tomorrow. Men will be put up free of charge, but definite arrangements must await arrival in New Haven. Tickets are going fast, announced Harvard representatives yesterday...
...presidents acknowledged the immediate issue created by the rapid demobilization of the armed forces, but wished to await positive proof as to whether or not adequate manpower can be secured for the services by voluntary enlistment. Before the emergence of this "definite proof," they proposed the following as an interim policy...
Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...