Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, 90% of my conversation had consisted of strictly army talk; the beefs, the gripes, the profanity, the "wait-till-I-get-out" resolutions, the constant damning of the military and all its works, the endless recitals of battles and who won them. Now I had no beefs, no gripes, no bitches and no regimentation-and I was a lost soul. I tried to strike up a conversation with a civilian correspondent at the Hotel Scribe, and after five minutes of talking politics, I was right back where I started -"Now when we were on the Ruhr. . . ." It was extremely...
...Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the King's daughter, through the heart, and the love-smitten princess helped to get the Fleece from her father's temple. Mythology's most famous voyage had reached its goal, but Author Graves takes 150 more pages to wind things...
...wonderful place. But the G.I.s could hardly wait to get home...
Both reporters seemed a little unsure what to do in the presence of the Emperor, who received them in morning dress. (Baillie: "He was taller than I expected"; Kluckhohn: "He was about the average height of the Japanese.") The Times man had to wait, but was provided with ash tray and matches, then was led in, shook hands with the Son of Heaven ("I did not bow nor was I asked to"). He and the Emperor chatted about ten minutes before "I backed out, walked back down the hall to the waiting room to pick up my overseas...
...neither quite as simple nor as easy as that. Constance Bennett is a veteran actress, highly experienced and highly opinionated. "All my life," she says, "I knew what was wrong with production, but this is the first time I could say, 'Wait a minute, let's fix it.' " Apparently she said this often (to everybody from scriptwriter to booking agent), regally and grimly (because she desperately wanted to succeed in her new role...