Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a reason. Everybody was waiting. The next move was Ike Eisenhower's. Nobody wanted to decide anything until that move was made. Everyone was in betting pools on the invasion. April? May? June? July? August? September? October? After elections? Each month had its backers. But if the invasion were not soon, how long could the Big Washington decisions wait...
...where he lived in a dilapidated shack and worked for the gristmill at 75? a day, Elmer Mott popped the question to his boss's daughter, Ethel Trott. That was in 1908. Many years afterward, a court judge recorded Ethel's answer: "Yes, Elmer, but let us wait until you get something to marry...
...wait a minute," cried Thomas Rhea. "I don't know that he said that. My impression is that he would like to get out of the whole thing. I think he would like to retire like any man would after what he's been through." But Thomas Rhea thought the President would run and win anyway...
...rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
...fact that there was still fighting to be done did not mean that the massive bombardment had been a failure. Cassino had simply added one more lesson to the established lessons of Verdun, of Stalingrad, of Tarawa. No bombardment can totally eliminate a foe skilled and nervy enough to wait it out. The infantryman must write the final score...