Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a "very good chance" that Molly and her family will soon be in a movie. But the Goldbergs' invasion of Hollywood, says Mrs. Berg, "will have to wait until my next vacation...
...more. Los Angeles had built 835 new classrooms for elementary pupils alone, then found that that was not nearly enough. Detroit had raised $55 million for new grade schools, but it knew that its troubles were just beginning. "This part is easy," said one school-board member. "Just wait till this crop hits the high schools...
...Ford), it is still a long road to a magazine cover or a four-color ad. Most agencies register far more models than they can possibly place, are little more than clearinghouses which keep the models' bookings, relay telephone messages, give them a place to sit around and wait between jobs, and collect 10% of their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook, trying to look like the advertisers' cryptic specifications ("We need the soap and motherhood type"). By great good fortune...
...diehards of the Far Eastern Division, led by Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, W. Walton Butterworth (whose May appointment has not yet been confirmed in the Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...
...bunch to live with when they lose. Last month, after losing a tough game in Philadelphia, a couple of Cardinals made the mistake of singing Moonlight and Roses while the team was riding the bus to the station. Said Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer, a rousing cheer for being the last...