Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would...
...tactical authority and mature, practiced perfection in backcourt stroking, he would surely do it. Immaculate and chipper, Perry dashed off the first set, 6-3. The crowd applauded and waited for Crawford to warm up. Playing on his baseline instead of behind it, gaining invaluable split seconds by taking Perry's shots just before the top of the bounce, stinging his steady backhanders into Perry's farthest corner, Crawford worked along sedately in the second set while his opponent's tension mounted with the score. At 11-all, Perry made a double fault that unraveled his nerves...
...their project again, advertise for bids, pick a contractor. The contractor, in turn, has to order his materials, assemble work crews. This routine explains why the flow of public works cash was still only an insignificant trickle last week and why, despite hopeful headlines, the country still has to wait weeks, perhaps months, to feel the full effects of this enormous spending program...
...vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled-A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental The Making of Americans may have to wait for a doubtful posterity to be properly appreciated; but her first and best-known book, Three Lives, will be reprinted this month by the Modern Library, whose editors' ears are close to the ground...
...recovered some of her old assurance. When Helen Jacobs crept up to 3-all from 0-3, Mrs. Moody briskly ran off three more games in a row. After a ten-minute rest, she came back to the court and sat down in a linesman's chair to wait for her opponent...