Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logically, they could only hope and wait. But for what...
...found, had no authority to issue an order permitting Galo's property to be trespassed on, unless Pepe had already been tried and found guilty of a crime. Such was not the case. So the Minister did the next best thing. He dispatched a detachment of police to wait for Pepe to come outside...
Kaltenborn and his colleagues usually have to go on the air without enough time to reflect, weigh, or wait for more information. Kaltenborn himself predicted that Hitler would not come into power. A few hours before the Wehrmacht smashed into Poland, he still thought that negotiation was a good bet. His expressed views on labor have often been tendentious and shallow in perspective...
Outside the wire, the guards watch and wait, bound to the camp almost as tightly as the prisoners. Guards are older men, specially selected and trained. A good many have M.P. schooling. They are changed frequently to keep them alert in their boring work. The guards, too, will be glad when it is all over...
...shop ten feet wide, surrounded by seven pawnbrokers and nine saloons, black-haired Herb Luhn, 49, proprietor of the San Francisco Camera Exchange, last week went on being successful in a fantastic way. In normal times his customers ("They're all nuts, they only talk about photography") wait on one another, wrap purchases, ring up the cash register without disturbing him, use his telephone. They patronize no one else because there is no one like him and no shop like his (they have made it a meeting place, a center for the exchange of information...