Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfect their continental defenses, time for their Pacific ally to draw off American strength. But the delay and loss meant a great deal to the Allies. Upon this battle turned the whole timing of the difficult, not-yet-begun European campaign, and therefore of the Pacific campaign, which must wait until Hitler is beaten. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt advised the Germans: ". . . Victory demands the utmost perseverance and requires that we should hold out 'five minutes longer...
...Workers are instructed to go to the doctor instead of requesting a house call if they possibly can, thus saving the doctor's time and getting a more efficient examination. They are taught not to wait until they are too sick to be moved...
Tunisia was far, too, from the training grounds: it would be nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...
...still the academic requirements pile onward. For a lot of undergraduates it's been a tough job to concentrate on medieval dates and wait for the sound of orders in a mailbox, all at the same time
...surgeons had to be found, too, because most Leningrad surgeons were in the Army. The Institute gave courses which made emergency surgeons out of ordinary doctors in two weeks. Even then, nothing but wounds and emergencies could be attended to; "planned operations" had to wait...