Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dissolution was still certain. From New Brunswick, Canada, one Ernest W. Cannon called up to protest over 4,000 miles of wire that his wife had read Long's prophecy and had refused to go on pickling cauliflower. "The Lord," said Long coldly, "cannot wait until worldly tasks like pickling are finished." When Cannon's wife got on the phone, the prophet said: "Pray at noon, 2 and 8 p.m., and ready yourself...
Hold Fire. In Jacksonville, Ill., firemen responding to an alarm at the Wabash railway station had to wait ten minutes for the fire to arrive - in a baggage...
When I was young I used to wait On master and give him his plate, And pass the bottle when he got dry, And brush away the blue-tail...
Though formal football and the Yale game will wait until 1946, Harvard has regained the major part of its peacetime coaching staff. Coach Dick Harlow, back from three years of service as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy, will be assisted by Al McCoy, also back from service in the armed forces. Also helping out will be, of course, Floyd Stah! and Henry Lamar...
...mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...