Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there any sign last week that Morgenthau planned to do anything about his views. Sensitive of his bad relations on Capitol Hill, he was determined to wait until Congress sought his counsel-a day that may not come until long after the apple trees on Fishkill Farms have budded, blossomed and borne their fruit...
...first night of the ban, Eleanor Roosevelt drove three blocks in a White House car to hear Negro Contralto Marian Anderson at the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall. Three days later, unable to wait any longer in the Union Station for Daughter Anna Boettiger and Son-in-Law John (whose train was late) she walked the mile and a half back to the White House with a soldier she had met in the USO lounge...
...muscles and nerves, that it effects lasting improvement-some boys have continued to see colors well after eight months. Reason Dr. Cadan does not discontinue the other treatments and concentrate on electricity: "The boys I get are only two days ahead of the draft anyway and can't wait for me to experiment on them...
...things crop up to disturb Timar's sodden conscience. As they travel to their new home, Adèle disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville...
...while the sword is yet in sheath, And while I wait to act my part; I dream . . . until the point of death Shall strike to still a lonely heart...