Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardly Wait...
...which citizens like Sewell Avery, whose general aim is to keep citizens like the Kellys in their place, can defy that government in its own courts. This $64 angle is submitted for Hollywood's $25,000 story about the Kelly family, a movie for which I can hardly wait...
...Long Wait. At 11:30 p.m. Spaatz made his decision. Orders flashed out, at bases throughout Britain ground crews tumbled out of their bunks to ready the armada - 1,600 bombers and fighters. The attack was to mark the beginning of modern precision air war. In the paneled room at X-House Spaatz and his officers talked on until 2 a.m., then went...
...streets, were waterlogged. Said the Tokyo press next day: "It was high time that sirens sounded again, because the majority of Tokyo's population had become indifferent to air danger and had neglected preparations. . . . Some of our citizens still seem to have rather thick skins. Let them wait until . . . they have to crawl on their bellies in water-filled trenches; they'll quickly drain them...
When World War II ended, the Count sped back to France. But his demoniacal visitations had given Solange "convulsions that racked her . . . with euphoric climaxes." "He is coming!" she cried. "Wait just one last moment before nailing me down!" Meanwhile the Count's heart "contracted at the sight of the young cork [trees] that had grown during his absence." Though Solange had died, the Count knew that the pulse of France was beating as strongly as ever-"the truffles truffled . . . the snail slavered, the manure manured, the cemetery rotted, the preserves preserved, the rabbit's blood dripped...