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Word: bided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal regard of countless Japanese, and returned it in full measure. But months before Pearl Harbor he told Washington that his reports had to be brief; Japan's military dictators were operating in dark secrecy. Then, for more than six months after Pearl Harbor, he was obliged to bide his time in Tokyo while the land where so much compelled his affection made war on his native land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ambassador Departs | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...also indicted (along with its subsidiary Carboloy Co.) for a 1928 patent deal with Krupp on tungsten car bide alloys. President L. Gerald Firth of Firth-Sterling Steel Co., one of Carboloy Co.'s three licensees, applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Thurman's Kampf | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...would not have him. He did get into France, shortly after the Munich bombing last fall. Thence he still manages to keep in touch with the Black Front. If the Allies had bombed Germany during the Polish phase, Strasser might have struck then. As it is, he intends to bide his time till Germans are far less confident, far more sick & tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler's Rival | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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