Word: awaiting
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...military purposes, Sicily is a part of southern Italy, and Italy is one shore of the Adriatic. On the other shore is Yugoslavia, where guerrillas await the Allies. At some time and point, Allied forces moving in from the western and eastern Mediterranean will probably join. In the meantime, firm basing in southern Italy practically completes the neutralization of the Italian Navy, the reconquest of the Mediterranean and the opening of shorter supply routes for the Allied armies on its shores and in Russia...
...Mediterranean link to the Middle East and to Russia, must still be protected by a big fraction of Allied air and naval strength. The Germans, in one of their several alibis to their own people last week, said that the U-boats were being partly withdrawn to await new devices and new tactics, that eventually they would strike again. Well aware that the Allies had won their recent gains at sea with new devices and tactics, Allied Navy men did not laugh off this threat...
American airmen in Britain have matured in their understanding of war. They know that the July 4 raid last year was a spectacular stunt, more valuable in home headlines than in the Battle for Europe. The men of the Eighth await their real anniversary, which will not come until Aug. 17, one year from the day when American heavy bombers first flew into Occupied Europe...
...skillful surgeons, its spacious research laboratories. But when ailing Edsel Bryant Ford stepped through its doors seven weeks ago with his quick, springy stride, nothing could be done for him. So, at 49, Edsel Ford returned to his sprawling grey stone house beside grey Lake St. Clair to await death. Last week it came...
...bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford to insist that in the world economy bankers and the profit motive be given a chance to perform...