Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will U.S. shipowners meet air transport's bid for passenger business? Barred from flying planes of their own, and forced to wait months while troopships are converted to passenger liners, the ship operators' postwar outlook for passenger business is dismal. For many foreign-flag ship operators will probably be permitted by their governments to establish their own air service...
...company. Surprise was his roommates' reaction, however, when he returned to the salt mines with a chagrined expression on his face. "She was all right," his explanation ran, "but with 12 more Saturday nights in Boston, do you think I'm going to put up with this 'wait 'til we know each other better' routine...
...married when I was a regular man and we said, 'What shall we do to pay up our old bills? If we get married now we'll have the furniture to pay for, and I haven't got a dime.' I said: 'Wait a while and see if I can peel off these debts.' She said: 'I'll work a while and maybe on both salaries we'll catch up.' So it happened that way, and then she was in a family way and from then on my troubles began...
Either move must probably wait until war's end. But baseball pundits noted that Hollywood cash will be quickly available if Pants Rowland decides to move fast...
...Swiss village, he reproduced it in a set down to the last lintel and Lederhosen. When he came to the U.S., he flabbergasted David 0. Selznick's representatives by telling them precisely where everything in Manhattan was and how best to get there. And he could scarcely wait to see the police lineup, a treat to which he had been looking forward for years...