Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guessing Games. Berlin could wait. The Germans could continue to guess where Red power would strike next. Last week they guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...
After the Japs took all the men away to parts unknown, Katharine "stood doing nothing, for there was nothing to do. . . . She felt for something to stand on, but there was nothing. She was a prisoner. She cleared her throat and tried to smile. . . . 'I'm waiting,' she said. 'I guess I'll have to wait. I am waiting for the time when we are free...
...couple of fighter pilots stationed in Assam. . . . Since coming overseas, we have had brought home to us, rather forcibly . . . that women aren't inclined to wait for long when a man has to take time out to fight the war. So we find ourselves the proud possessors of two big shining silver fighter planes but without any girls to name them after...
...production dropped anyhow, mainly because there were no rail cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous...