Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
...Long Wait. Now the Americans were getting a little equipment. They had got warm clothes for the winter, enough shoes, coveralls, gloves. Every man was above his last year's equipment of socks: one pair. But there was no time for uni form, few places to go if one had the time to polish his brass and set off to town...
...China theater was still 15,000 miles from home. Across the supply line that could make the air war big, muscular and effective, still lay the enemy in Burma, the Himalayas to the west. China would have to wait, but China could wait. No one knew that better than Claire Chennault and his dust-caked...
...Decided (2,070-to-826) to wait until next year to vote on the stormy question of admitting women serving abroad with the armed forces. Warned one disapproving delegate: "If we get enough women in, we'll have to organize an auxiliary for their husbands who never served in any war." Said another: "My war department's right upstairs in this hotel and I'm going to get hell for this, but we've been getting along without them for 44 years and we can still get along without them...
When Mexico expropriated all U.S. and British oil properties back in 1938, tough old Harry Sinclair suspected that the old days were gone forever. After an appropriate wait, while the State Department harrumphed and other U.S. oil companies stood on their legal, unenforceable rights, he made his own direct deal with Mexican realists. For $8,500,000 on the barrelhead, plus enough crude to net Sinclair a tidy profit, Mexico could have the whole Sinclair properties with no legalistic strings attached. Last week's check from good Don Francisco was the final payment...