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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's it feel like that close? Well, let me think. First there's a row-a steadily increasing row that seems to fill up everything. And you're trying to dig into the ground and you wait and wait, thinking, "This is my lot." Then the explosion. Well, it's so loud that first you sort of feel it rather than hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Blitz and One Man | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...Hunted. The two of them settled down in the hills to wait for the Navy to return for them-in two or three months, they figured. Tweed's companion wandered off. He got caught by the Japs, and was decapitated. Four other Americans had taken to the hills in defiance of a Jap order-surrender or be executed when caught. They were caught. Tweed stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Worse yet, the man-eater in Catherine was not enough for Actress West; she insisted on encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton's 'prome', I presume!" She had sponged up enough history to soak her play with wars, uprisings and palace intrigues. But the excitement was conveyed in dialogue that had the specific gravity of lead, and the results, when not merely sedative, were often crushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...producers of "Bathing Beauty" in their haste to get two name bands, hundreds (count 'em) of bathing beauties, and backgrounds full of California sunshine, have decided that the moviegoer who looks for credulity can wait for the newsreels. As it is, its almost impossible to tell Basil Rathbone from a Phi Beta Kappa key without a scorecard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/8/1944 | See Source »

...right note was sounded when Lieutenant Towne suggested a permanent concession behind Chase designed to improve the humor and up the efficient of all midshipmen during these sweltering days. But Boston's beer supply would never bear the strain. We'll just have to wait for that long New England winter...

Author: By Jack Shindier, | Title: The Lucky Bag -:- | 8/8/1944 | See Source »

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