Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear for months. He had high-pressured the London Poles, in the person of ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, to join his Lublin Committee-on Lublin's terms. He had informed his Teheran colleagues of his decision to establish a friendly regime in Poland. When they asked him to wait a little while, he had graciously acceded. But he had never changed his plans...
There were two hitches: 1) the Sun must wait nearly two years for Caniff, until his present contract runs out in October 1946; 2) even then, Terry and his pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also...
...mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside, an easy plaything in the hands of anyone who exploits their instincts...
Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...
Petree's program has helped the lusty Los Angeles furniture business vie with that of Grand Rapids. But Petree, bubbling with such ideas as mass sales of prefabricated homes, thinks it is just the beginning. Said he: "We can hardly wait for the war to be over...