Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Sister Kenny made her latest threat to go home, New York's Representative Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill proposing a Congressional investigation of the opposition to Sister Kenny. On hearing of the bill, Sister Kenny announced that she would wait: ". . . I do consider in all fairness that the suggested Congressional investigation should be initiated at once in order that the people of America . . . should know the truth. If it is their desire that I leave . . . I shall go. If it is their desire that I stay, I shall remain...
Fire Crackers. In Okmulgee, Okla., the Rev. Howard Bush heard a prowler, called the sheriff, lay in wait outside, got cold and hungry, went back into the house. When he came out, he was challenged, could not answer because his mouth was full of crackers, was shot in the stomach by the sheriff...
...scorched earth up. By pulling in her belt again, Russia can in time make or get elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years. To rebuild Dnieprostroy the Russians could now build all nine, and probably faster than before. But they have ordered all nine from...
...three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
...would also like to get back to the life she left. She remains steadfast to her duty in Washington, but she will get out "just as fast as the law and the Navy will allow." Actually, Miss Mac vows, she may wait only for the law. "I am still sure colleges are my role and nothing has made me more sure of it than life in the Navy." Miss Mac could only guess at the feelings of 82,000 other WAVES...