Word: await
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack the Enemy? Or to Await His Blows...
...local participants have been informed that the College will await the outcome of the criminal hearing scheduled in Cambridge on April...
...transport to the river, for the charwomen and university professors and factory workers and Members of Parliament who will cease all other activities to listen to the broadcast of The Boat Race, for the Oxford and Cambridge men and women all over the world who eagerly await the result of The Boat Race, for the glory of being pointed out deferentially for all time as "Rowing Blues," for the non-professional coaches who have worked over them since January, for the men who have rowed in The Boat Race since 1829, for those who remember the dead heat...
Ever since debate on a new draft act opened, students have been hearing that they should await passage of this bill before acting. Some have taken this to mean that the new measure would solve all their problems and make clear what would happen to them. This impression is, in at least one way, incorrect. What the students are actually waiting for is action by the Chief Executive; in the new bill as in the Selective Service Act now on the books the president has all authority to defer students...
Immediately after Pearl Harbor the University announced that is was delaying all immediate plans for changes, saying that it would await Washington developments. President Conant, in an address to an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre on December 8, pledged full University co-operation in the war effort, and urged calmness and deliberation in advising all students to "examine the situation carefully and then decide how best they can serve their country...