Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of this speech is that "actions speak louder than words". Where words alone are concerned, the Premier and the nationals which he represents are turning deaf ears. "We await Germany's acts", says the Premier and goes on to exclaim "with what joy shall we remain silent the day Germany understands; but she has given us dally fresh proof of her lack of understanding". Standing in the village of Ailly Wood in northern France it would indeed be strange if the ruins about him did not, like Caesar's wounds, open their poor dumb mouths and eloquently remind...
...Federal Government on his side. For the time being it is a fight between the governor, and the Ku Klux Klan, and it is the governor who has been forced to take extraordinary measures. He is not in the position in which Andrew Johnson found himself, where he must await passively the worst which the legislative body can do, for he is now the representative of the central government at Washington. This is a fact that he has taken great care to ascertain...
Premier Baldwin of Britain left England for France ostensibly to take a vacation, in reality to await communications from M. Poincaré of France relative to further French proposals in connection with the Ruhr and reparations. The French proposals are expected to lead to a private and even secret meeting of the two Premiers at an early date, and with Belgium's connivance to result in an inter-Allied Conference during the Fall...
...premature or published by some enterprising reporter before the methods have been scientifically investigated or published in medical literature. A number of such remedies, recently reported, may or may not be in this class, but facts at hand are so meager that they can merely be listed, and must await scientific confirmation...
...customs service will not take advantage of the ruling to seize rum runners beyond the three-mile limit. It will await a final ruling from the Supreme Court rather than attempt a practice now which is sure to evoke diplomatic protests...