Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Troops from the transports had long since been loaded into their small boats or amphtracks [amphibious tractors] when I boarded a small boat at 7:45 with a brigadier general and his staff. We rode out to a control vessel to await orders to land. By now the acrid stench of gunpowder was strong, even 3,000 yards offshore in the control boat. A pall of smoke now covered the length of the island, obscuring even Mt. Tapotchau. A shell splashed 150 yards off our bow. Said the captain: "I think we are being sniped...
Pearl Harbor, and Delos Emmons' ability as a crack administrative officer, abruptly changed the course of his career. General Emmons was sent to take over the Hawaiian Department from Lieut. General Walter Short, who was retired to await court-martial (and is still waiting). In a commendably short time Emmons reorganized the Islands' disorganized defenses, built innumerable airfields, carried out the Army's share of rebuilding Pearl Harbor as the U.S.'s anchor bastion in the Pacific Ocean...
...parade around the country on "trips of inspection." With a military escort, a couple of Cabinet ministers, a mobile radio station and an official biographer, he tears along the roads at breakneck speed. Landowners greet him with floral arches, sometimes line up their Indian laborers days in advance to await his coming. During brief pauses in the villages, he judges intricate cases of law in a minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable radio he gives advice on cooking...
...knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been engraved two months ago, laid away at the printers' to await the fateful flash from England...
...opinions briefly, spontaneously (some Justices took six months). When lawyers complained, Holmes roared: "May God twist my tripes if I string out the obvious for the delectation of fools!" As soon as an attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...