Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut. General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many...
Serene and calm, Sewell Lee Avery sat down in the green leather chair in his paneled office, and waited. Day before, he had sent a telegram challenging the authority of the President of the U.S. to seize the Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward & Co., the $295,000,000 mail-order house of which Mr. Avery is the absolute, unchallenged boss. Mr. Avery had not long to wait...
Question: How long do we wait with our air retaliation...
...Answer: Waiting is a great art! Waiting is also a question of nerves. It is quite possible that we must reckon with still greater damages if we want to win all. We must wait for the right "psychological-military-political" moment and then, only then, will we strike back...
Today, strong in its machines and young men, the U.S. is sweeping back across the Pacific. Victory lies ahead. Some day in the not too distant future the humiliation of the Philippines will be avenged. Wainwright and his soldiers wait. If they live they will learn that the nation has not forgotten the Philippines' gaunt and ghostly...