Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to waging the war, should the Allies start talking and preparing now for the kind of peace we want after the war, or should we think and plan only for winning the war, letting peace plans wait...
Interviewers from Denver University's National Opinion Research Center put this question to a sample cross section of the U.S. people. The answer: no opinion, 2%; wait, 39%; prepare...
...coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer commanding the shoestring force of British infantry behind them. As they waited, two German fighter planes swooped over the hills and strafed the British infantry, whose commander had belatedly decided to wait for air support. The support never came in time. Rushing German strength stopped the Allied dash...
...Britain, where it is always received with enthusiasm and prompt use, is "sweating out." This usually means stewing in one's own juice, as "sweating out" a reprimand from a commanding officer. But it also has less serious meanings. Airmen in England sweat out a chow line (i.e., wait for food) or a routine assignment like a training flight...
...reading maps, figuring transportation problems--our own, not the Navy's--and edging up silently to people who have been seen in conversation with a member of the staff and whispering furtively "What did he say' Are you really going to Corpus?" There are only two weeks to wait now before we know where we'll be going, but gosh! each day seems a week. Everybody seems to favor the South and the West; everybody seems to shun Georgia and Oklahoma--any WAVE would understand...