Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...79th Congress was in the home stretch, and it could hardly wait for adjournment. But to the surprise of many, it still could lay a foundation for a more efficient legislative plant. It passed the congressional reorganization bill, sent it to the President...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
When Assault romped home in the Kentucky Derby at 8-to-1, the smart horse players said, "Wait for the Preakness." In the Preakness, Assault beat Elizabeth Arden's Lord Boswell by just a neck. In the Belmont Stakes, last of horse racing's Big Three for three-year-olds, great gobs of smart money again went on Lord Boswell he finished fifth, 5½ lengths behind Winner Assault...
Wicked Lady, a 1945 picture starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Patricia Roc, was a big moneymaker in England. But the U.S. will have to wait to see it. Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage" (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections). The British, who have always considered bare legs more sexy than half-bare breasts, are resentfully reshooting several costly scenes...
O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...