Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to India, from which he shortly returned with Delhi belly and another manuscript which "can never be published," he says, "as long as Winston Churchill is still alive...
...Johnson was not a man to wait long, either for help or advice. By last week he had bulldozed his way through stubborn opponents and helpful advisers alike. He had already achieved something approaching mastery of the Pentagon, but it was an uneasy, strife-racked empire that he ruled...
When a parade of singing university students swung by in the rhythmic, conga-like step of the peasant yangko dance, a grey-gowned merchant said: "It is good it came so peacefully, but now we must see, we must wait...
...Road. Linz Bros, does not wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been...
...penalties six for one burly defenseman Lawrason Sayre, and Harvard got nine. The final game left the varsity with an exactly even 6 to 6 record. But all but one of the wins were foregone conclusions, while the team to beat--Yale, Dartmouth, Williams--were not beaten, But wait till next year, Bill Harkness...