Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control the inflation China needs now a portion of the credits we have envisaged, perhaps $75 million. The remainder of the $200 million for the first year of our Three Year Plan can await action by the Congress; but either from the U.S. foreign relief program or the Export-Import Bank, or some other source, this $75 million must be obtained in the next 30 days...
Alleviation of this condition would cause an administrative upheaval. A long standing rule of the Corporation that tuition must be paid in advance prevents the Bursar's Office from extending the deadline. Nor can the Bursar's Office send bills home before the term begins, as it must await information from the Registrar as to the precise amount of the bill, information which in many cases arrives barely in time for the bill to be crammed into the registration envelope...
Creaks & Cobwebs. Soon after their arrival, they learned that they would have to submit elaborate applications in sextodeciplicate for permission to go ahead on any deal, await clearance through an involved hierarchy which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade), and, finally, SCAP. Then they found-as they had been warned by SCAP (TIME, June 16)-that the quantity, quality, and variety of Japanese goods were small. But the Japanese were anxious to improve them...
...sloping hillside overlooking the village of Wang Tsun, 450 miles southwest of Shanghai. On the stone, airmen's wings were crudely etched. Beneath the stone, American Graves Registration servicemen found the body of Corporal Leland D. Faktor, of Plymouth, Iowa. They carried the body to Shanghai to await the wishes of Faktor's relatives in Iowa. Said Colonel Charles F. Kearney, A.G.R.S. chief in China: "The last of the Doolittle raiders has come home...
Classifications for the tourney are open and closed singles and open and closed doubles and silver medals, donated by the H.A.A., await the men or boys who wade through the three scheduled rounds successfully...