Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airmail appropriation to finance their preliminary transatlantic flights. On general principles the State, War and Navy Departments were all behind Export in the Capitol corridors. (The Navy has stood aside to let Export have its three big warlike Sikorskys in the spring.) That was little consolation. Export must await another deficiency appropriation (probably until next year) before trying again. For the turndown of what looked like a sure thing, committeemen gave no official explanation, Pan Am was as silent as a catful of canaries...
Unquestionably many of those who have associated themselves with various phases of the preparedness program are unsympathetic to democracy and await eagerly the surrendering by hundreds of thousands of young Americans of their civilian privileges and immunities as they become draftees under military law. Unquestionably a goodly fraction of the most agile jumpers-onto-the-bandwagon-of-Preparedness are out to play the trend for all it is worth as a business proposition. Unquestionably, these two groups are the enemies of democracy...
...effete East like The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang. At the top of his form Critic DeVoto suggested a geyser ejecting a column of live steam, accompanied by deep, sometimes rather incoherent rumblings, hisses, falling rocks, lava, fuliginous fumes. Readers of The Saturday Review of Literature began eagerly to await this weekly display. Later the same phenomenon could be observed in The Easy Chair, literary section of Harpers Magazine...
...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...
...Witnesses' pontiff is rawboned, militant "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 70, who in 1896 accompanied William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign, who in 1930 startled the U. S. by deeding a California house, garage and two automobiles, in perpetuity, to await the reappearance on earth of King David, Gedeon, Barak. Samson and other Biblical worthies...