Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen will have to wait until next term for their first dance, the Class of '47's Executive Committee decided at a meeting last night. Reviewing complications that arose during the past week at the decision of the V-12 Unit to have a dance the week before, mainly for the benefit of departing students, the Committee moved to postpone the dance until November 20, date of the traditional Yale weekend...
...many jobs as Under Secretary (guiding Ickes' power policy, handling U.S. insular possessions, helping supervise the coal industry, tussling with petroleum reserves). President Roosevelt had refused to accept his resignation, wrote: "You can best serve your country by continuing to do your job." Last week, unwilling to wait until his draft deferment expires on Nov. 15, Fortas resigned again, saying "I feel most deeply . . . that I should not be denied the privilege of joining the fighting forces." This time, Secretary Ickes accepted the resignation, but commented, "You have been indispensable. You are 'irreplaceable...
...which originally meant the path to glory, has become an end, a need, a form of excitement in itself. His camp tours, by putting him under incredible pressure, have given him an enormous lift. Pleased that he is first in the hearts of the service men, he can hardly wait to be off to the South Pacific. "When the war ends," Hope confesses freely, "it'll be an awful let-down...
...Wait. For the men it will be a matter of waiting, with unemployment compensation easing the wait. Within 30 days, bustling Mr. Burke expects to turn out his first synthetic rubber tire. From then on, re-employment will rise steadily until, in six months, the payroll will hit 2,200 (2,800 jobs less than the ordnance plant...
That time comes each morning at 0658, when, after we come to attention, we wait patiently for Co. B to get on its way to chow. Then, about 0703, we get started ourselves. Arriving at Conant's Tavern, "where the elite meet to eat," we route step at about...