Word: await
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage to Mac was wonderful," she said. "Perhaps in some ways Mac was closer to me, but I know now that Harold is the one I love." She went home to Portsmouth, Ohio, to annul Marriage No. 2 and await Husband No.1...
...most of this mass of humanity there would be long, cheerless months, even years ahead before they could "open the rusted doors with the rusted keys." The physical task of moving the 15,500,000 foreign civilians and war prisoners out of Germany would have to await peace and some kind of order. In Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere, thousands of earlier refugees awaited repatriation. But sooner or later they would get back; sooner or later political Europe would feel their impact...
...Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike Hopkins are the people who like order...
This proposal may well have shocked many a citizen: no other group in the U.S. had been so singled out in World War II. But soldiers would understand the justification: military necessity. Said Franklin Roosevelt: "The need is too pressing to await the outcome of further efforts at recruiting...
...foresaw a split of the anti-Liberal vote. If his candidate lost, Prime Minister King would almost certainly have to appeal the verdict to the whole country. Already it was conceded in Ottawa that the opening of Parliament (Jan. 31) would be a token affair, that real work would await the outcome of Grey North's voting...