Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Allied air effort to wall off the Rhineland battle arena from interior Germany continued in full force. Perhaps Eisenhower might wait until this process was further along (it can never be 100% complete), or until the Russians get going on the East Prussia-Poland front. But Eisenhower knew that what the enemy most wanted him to do was to wait. Surveying the Allied reserves, the Germans could conclude that he had no intention of accommodating them. Still up General "Ike's" sleeve was a potent threat-General Brereton's powerful airborne army. It was a fair...
...Recommended that Congress wait until war's end to legislate on peacetime conscription...
...action for the Crimson so far was furnished in a 30 minute scrimmage last week against the Navy Supply School outfit from across the Charles. Commenting on the scrimmage, Coach Stahl said that the defense was shaky but that shooting in some spots was encouraging. "We'll have to wait awhile," he said, "before we can see how the team is going to shape...
Indiana's ham-handed Homer Capehart, the phonograph tycoon, could not wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview...
...doughboys in their miserable foxholes, the tankmen warming up their machines, heard the apocalyptic thunder. They said: This is it. The star-shouldered planners, their work done, sat back to wait. They said: Let's hope this...