Word: waited
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Life to Come. Bishop Carrington and the rest of the world could only wait and hope. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had doubtless solved their immediate military problems. Their political problems were much harder. The Russian demand for a second front had always conflicted in the past with U.S.-British military policy (after the bitter post-Pearl Harbor defeats) of attacking only in overwhelming force, after a thorough pasting from the air. And in spite of Russia's blandly ignoring the fact, the U.S. and Britain were now busily engaged on five major fronts, all over the world. Conflicting...
Just before Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Quebec last week, a summer rain stopped, the sun came out, and a rainbow appeared in the southern sky. To some who waited at the railway siding, this was an omen. But most of the world would wait for better evidence...
...Even the Victory ship would not be ideal for peacetime competition. Why not wait, to begin building up a fast peacetime fleet, until the U.S. has time, materials and manpower to build real dreamboats...
...gauge catches snow in a funnel, melts it in a pan below, stores and measures the residue. If there is a "moon faced" young man about the house who .discourses upon art, life, love, employs trite French phrases, "inevitably the day will come (even if you he ve to wait for it for many years) when h^ will sigh and murmur...
...that the majority have received inklings into their P.G. duties, the rest of the Bakermen can't wait until they know whether they will be hoisting signals or entering them in the log as comm. Officers . . . The management promises a good show in any duty you draw and there are plenty of good ring-side seats left...