Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passengers queued up for many hours to wait their chance. First priority went to troops in separate queues. London's main stations looked like huge, frowzy dormitories. Hundreds of stranded travelers stretched out to catch a few hours' sleep before trying to jam aboard the train that might-or might not-be leaving in the early morning...
...British Admiralty announced that 3,700 volunteers had answered its call for yachtsmen and small-boat handlers. The boatmen, many of them veterans of the incredible flotilla that saved the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, are manning small craft in the harbors. Like other British civilians, they are waiting; but they will not have to wait quite so long...
...After a long wait I was able to see the police inspector in charge of the palace detail. . . . 'Quite impossible,' he said. 'Don't you realize that no one can enter this palace at all, except by appointment...
Without maligning Jake Fitch, they were certain that his appointment indicated that the Navy was still sticking to sacred seniority. It looked as if the generally younger admirals who had been airmen from the start would have to wait their turns-at least so long as the battleship admirals hold the reins...
...replied that Mr. Weidel had recently asked for visas at various consulates. Then she went on searching. But in the end she lost faith, accepted the "protection" of a man with a visa, sailed for the U.S.-on a ship that was torpedoed. The young refugee decided to wait in hiding for Europe's liberation...