Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Viton's Great Britain is by long odds the dullest and most instructive of the three. A static, black-&-white study of Britain and her concentric rings of Empire, it ends by appraising the Empire at war, sets up those crises which await it at war's end, and delivers the opinion that it will survive them...
Sirs: . . . . The derision of TIME's learned sditors is of small consequence compared to the daily happenings of a follower of the "Old Master." When my 30-month -old son clamors for his adjustment, I know he builton a solid foundation. The eagerness with which my tiny patients await the applicaton of his discovery, is greater acclaim than acquiescence from so-called medical science. Imagien a child clamoring for a hyperdermic "shot" from allopathic potion peddlers. TEDFORD DENNIS, D.C. Madrid, Iowa
Certain that if Mike accepted the implied challenge it would give the plays free advertising, and positive that there was no way for him to stop the plays, the Student Union settled back to await developments...
...firmest language," 13 Italian colliers bound for home with 100,000 tons of German coal had been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await the pleasure of the British Enemy Export Committee, to serve as an extra trump in the card game England has been playing with Italy since the beginning...
...granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...