Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major leagues. They do not like losing their Buck Newsomes, Joe Di Maggios and Ted Williamses. They think postwar air travel may well lure some big-league club to pick up a Los Angeles franchise (the St. Louis Browns nibbled at it two years ago). Above all, they await the day when they can support a third big league of their...
...tracks, replacing trolleys with busses. This will be a welcome move in Los Angeles, which has the greatest accumulation of antiquated rolling stock on the Pacific Coast. Some of the 1,140 cars were running in 1910. But even the old cars are needed today. Any modernization must await...
...with release of planes and transport from fuel chores. It now crossed three rivers, must still cross several more. Once completed, it would also free Hump flyers and the Road's truckers into China for transport of guns, munitions and food. Thousands of tons of ammunition and artillery await the day in India's stockpiles...
Then Togliatti spoke. He said: "We will never allow Italy and the Soviet proletariat to see between them a barrier such as reactionary groups have vainly attempted to construct. . . . Our Soviet comrades await from us proof of our good faith, and we must conduct with the greatest energy the fight against the Fascist bureaucracy in our ministries. . . ." The Cabinet crisis continued...
Large-scale Norwegian liberation may await either voluntary German withdrawal or British landings in the south. Russia was primarily interested in chasing Germans out of Finland, and the Russian pursuit was expected to go little farther than the Tana River, some 70 miles west of Kirkenes. The Russian drive will also free the Murmansk supply route from German air attacks...