Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...
...Slowest to reconvert was Chrysler Corp., which had to wait longest for cancellation of its war contracts. Chrysler hoped to get the first Plymouths off the line...
...Long Wait. As best they could they kept together, some tied to a long rope like corks on a net. A demented sailor yelled that his mother had just handed him a glass of cold milk. Another pointed to an imaginary island; Seabees, he screamed, were drinking tomato juice, less than two miles away. This caused a weird mass hallucination, and nearly 100 men began swimming for the island...
...What we should do at this critical moment is to wait for the great command from the throne. All wishful thinking must now be completely eliminated, nor is it of any use now to recount bygone events...
This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...