Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort of Col du Pourtalet, there to await the trial they have already awaited for twelve months...
...invasion of his rights. Last spring he refused to fill in his draft questionnaire, on the grounds that there was too much red tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
Four city volunteer wardens were stationed in each of the University's buildings to await possible damage. These central emergency equipment posts with trucks, fire hoses, and tools, were stationed at Harvard Hall, in the maintenance building on the river, and theoretically in the Music building quad- rangle...
...your pocketbook is low and you are lost for something to do, step around to 14 Plympton Street tonight after supper about 7:30 o'clock, where fame and fortune await you at the other end of a successful six weeks' competition for the Editorial or Business Boards...
...Britons who were left on the island were evidently only a small observation party to await the coming of the Nazi invasion. For the British were clearly surprised that the Nazis had not already got there ahead of them...