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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese there was no choice but to wait, and wonder where the next amphibious assault would strike. It might be Halmahera, as Tokyo had nervously predicted, or it might be the Philippines. Or it might be a swift lunge across the Empire's marine artery which would set marines and soldiers down on Formosa or the China coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Hirohito's Troubled Mind | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...tanks and guns, the trucks and jeeps thundered to the edges of Paris and spread around it. Paris would be the greatest single victory prize of Allied arms since the tides of war rolled back upon the Germans. Paris could probably be had for the taking. But Paris could wait. In strategic sight were even greater prizes: complete destruction of the German armies in northern France; the borders of Germany itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: The End Is in Sight | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Douglas Navy plane was grounded in Kansas through loss of an aileron hinge. The Douglas plant, within easy flying distance, had plenty of hinges, but all were beinturned out under Army contract. The Navy plane had to wait ten days while it got its hinge through Philadelphia via Oakland, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Invitation to Catastrophe | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Their decline began with the election of President Hayes, which, Gideon heard, involved a deal to withdraw the troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. Knowing it was too soon, Gideon appealed to the incumbent Grant. Denied, he returned to Carwell to wait in despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Amnesia? | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...course. He left the Seventh Army to hold the British and Canadians in Normandy. He counted on the Americans spending time to mop up Brittany while he was scraping together reserves to seal off the Brittany peninsula. But he had underestimated U.S. speed and daring. Leaving mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank to the sea near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Defeat in the North | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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