Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bahamas when he was 14, and it was there that he began his collection of snakes and toads. A year later, he noticed some dried toads mislabeled in the Harvard Museum and told the director about it. But the director only thought him presumptuous and Professor Barbour had to wait until 18 years later, when he himself became director of the museum, to correct the labels...
...under water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from bombardment by underwater "foxholes"-sections of large concrete pipe fitted with steel doors...
...could communicate with each other up to 16 feet apart by using breathing units as megaphones, up to 1,000 feet by knocking pieces of metal together. Planned, but not yet built at the war's end, were reinforced concrete underwater dens where crouching dragons could lie in wait for ships. At war's end there were 4.000 fukuryus at Yokosuka, of whom 1,200 were fully trained...
Claghorn: What's on your mind, son? Speak up. This is America, son. You got free speech. Go ahead and talk, son-talk, that is. Don't wait to be prodded...
Oradour-sur-Glane was a French farm town the Nazi SS troops destroyed. They shot the men, placed a time bomb in the center of the church, locked some 800 women and children in the church to pray and wait for death. Only eight survived...