Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt, so jubilant that he forgot his lingering cold, could hardly wait to break the news. At a press conference three days before the terms of the agreement were announced, he grinned and joked, nearly popped with his happy secret, finally said: The net results of the Moscow Conference had been a tremendous success. The spirit of the whole meeting had been amazingly good. State Secretary Cordell Hull deserved a great deal of credit for that spirit, and so did the British and Russians...
...every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right-of-way. Hard-boiled Harold Ickes, once he had the money, didn't wait "for legal unravelings: he condemned a right-of-way, promised to argue about damage claims later. To avoid a speculator's field holiday, he signed an order suspending further land sales in the area. Then last week Ickes prepared to call for bids for the tunnels...
Howard and his daughter, Ruth, write the show, which he owns and sells as an $1,800-a-week package. There is no ad-libbing, nor any necessity for it. The four oldtimers can make any line sound like an ad-lib. Experienced listeners wait especially for Howard to crack down on Lulu McConnell with something like "Miss McConnell, if you ever get a chance to live your life over again...
...Anyone in Briggs Hallisey that we are Abell to hold our own as well as Urso I can Tadley wait to show them. Estenik if that's not so. Wilson one Ellis try and predict by how much Jawn will win." Knowing it Stahl in fun, Huey decided that the soldiers with the Navy on its Lee could not score more than Faw points...
...Heaven Can Wait" begins promisingly with a weirdly effective modernistic setting of the lower world, with a really handsome devil of a devil. But then, just as the billboards warned, Don Ameche enters, cleverly disguised as an old man, but we knew him anyhow. From there on, the picture is one long series of flashbacks of our fallen hero's naughty, naughty affairs with Women...