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Word: awaiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy counting its chickens. The New York students, who love all favorites, were enraptured: here was a stake horse, with Arcaro up, out for a gallop; any price was a good one. They sent $140,000 into the machines, backing Mahout down to 1-4, then sat back to await the obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mahout Takes a Stand | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...honor guard at present arms. Five hearses were waiting. From a common burial ground in the mountain village of Koprivnik, the U.S. flyers shot down over Tito's Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2) had come back to the U.S. They were taken to a chapel at Arlington Cemetery to await final funeral services later this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dangerous Precedent | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Reporters, packing up last week, were filled with reluctant admiration for the amount of work done at the trial. Many of them felt that the readers of their newspapers would never get the full significance of what had been done here; that the task must await historians. Just to give the historians something more to read, 40 of them have written or are writing books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nurnberg Legend | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Board's opinion, meat, soybeans, cottonseed etc. had qualified for a return to price ceilings on every count during the price-free period (July 1 to Aug. 20). Milk prices had risen less. That was all there was to it. Gratefully, the Board moved off the griddle to await the decontrol questions that would be passed up from the Agriculture Department and OPA, and to keep its price-eye on the free-wheeling dairy folk. Congress, and supposedly the people, had got what they asked for. The country was a step toward a free market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Prices: New Level | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Comes." By afternoon the suggestions of hard feelings were growing firm. Half a dozen of Mansfield's deputies were beaten and carried out of town. When the polls closed at 4, a tense throng milled outside the voting place in the office of the Athens Water Co. to await the count. Suddenly two G.I. watchers burst through the shattering plate glass door, closely followed by a deputy wildly waving a pistol. A woman in the crowd screamed: "Oh God, here it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Battle of the Ballots | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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