Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a four-hour wait in Chicago...
With Truman holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they shot up the screen...
Intellectual Jack Rabbit. At nine, having attended high school for less than a year, William was ready for college. Harvard judged him too young, made him wait until he was eleven. That year he spellbound his professors with a discussion of four-dimensional bodies. The sandy-haired, blue-eyed prodigy seemed to have proved his father's theories...