Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high good humor, old Cordell Hull called in a bipartisan group of Congressmen to announce the news: Dumbarton Oaks was winding up its work. The U.S., Britain and Russia had seen eye-to-eye on the Great Blueprint for world organization. Minor details could wait. The important fact, said the Secretary of State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks...
...State, under the direction of Salton-stall, who shows great interest in the work of the committee, has already drawn up enough plans to create employment for thousands, and several of the leading cities of Massachusetts have followed suit with their own ideas for establishing public works without wait- ing for federal grants...
...Navy officials in Washington tell us that at many bases the officers and men are too eager for the news to wait for TIME to be read to them. They queue up and read it a page at a time as it comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together...
Brazilians, who have waited 14 years for "a calm atmosphere," prepared to wait some more...
...eighth day of the Saipan battle the Second and Fourth Marine Divisions had advanced rapidly on each side of the island. Then they had to wait, because two regiments of the 27th Army Division-with battalions faced in three directions, unable even to form a line-were hopelessly bogged down in the center. The third regiment of the 27th meanwhile had failed dismally to clean out a pocket of Japs in the southeast corner of the island...