Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next move was still Ike Eisenhower's. The nation plainly wanted to wait & see the result before making any further sacrifice of life-as-usual...
Would the choice build up Warren for the Vice Presidential nomination? Many GOPsters were sure it would. Others recalled that Governor Warren has said that he is not a candidate for any national office, and they now believed that he would really rather wait for a shot at first place...
...talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it" (TIME, March 20) was not Mark Twain's. . . . Charles Dudley Warner, Associate Editor of the Hartford Courant, was the man. Mark Twain did say (or write), "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes...
Viscount Cranborne, Dominions Secretary and Government Leader of the House of Lords, announced the impending operation at midweek, when he all but succeeded Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary (see col. 3). He soon learned that he would have to wait awhile for a War Cabinet portfolio. But his words on the Charter carried full weight: "The Government are at present proposing an initiation of discussions with their Allies. . . . The Dominion Prime Ministers will be here in the near future and no doubt they will have something to say. . . .To anticipate these discussions by a unilateral declaration would not be helpful...
Many an over 26 draftee who had already bade good-by to his employer, accepted his military absence bonus, shamefacedly went back to work - to wait...