Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Affair. In Manhattan, a homecoming merchant seaman, informed by customs authorities that it would cost $5 to take his lately acquired Russian wolf hound ashore, decided to wait a while, eventually forked over $30 for the wolf hound and her five brand-new puppies...
...many months the Soviets had waited for their western allies to open a western front. Now that the Normandy beachhead was booming, the western allies waited for Russia to reopen the main eastern front. They did not have to wait long...
...then even the regimented Japs were beginning to ask when their fleet would come out and fight. For the nonce, plump, taciturn Shimada said nothing; Tokyo's radio fantasists explained to the homeland and to Greater East Asia that the thing to do was to wait and see: some time the U.S. fleet would find itself far from home. Then the Jap fleet would strike the crushing blow...
Whether he could begin it before Cherbourg was taken, or would have to wait for a big port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...
After the scope of the project had sunk in, Pogue announced the really big news. He indicated that this was no phony warmup; this was the takeoff. He wanted to wait no longer for the U.S. to get its props into the postwar air. In short, he would open pre-hearing conferences, at which the applicants could show why they should get the best routes-within three weeks...