Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STATEMENT THAT THESE MEN "SNEER" AND "WAIT FOR THE DAY THEY SIGN ON FOR DOUBLE PAY," UNTIL AND UNLESS IT CAN BE PROVED TO BE A GENERAL PRACTICE, IS AN INTOLERABLE INSULT TO BRAVE MEN VOLUNTEERING FOR DANGEROUS DUTY...
This was the week when Franklin Roosevelt must deliver his message on the state of the Union. The President toiled and moiled over its phraseology. He kept his visitors list to a minimum, his desk clear of everything save business that could not wait...
...They laugh best who laugh last," Biographer Rukeyser quotes from William James. "Wait till we're dead twenty years. Look at the way they're now treating poor Willard Gibbs, who during his lifetime car hardly have been considered any great shakes at New Haven." Readers unable to place (Josiah) Willard Gibbs need not fret about it. Paradoxically, Gibbs is perhaps best known for his obscurity, a personal blackout which has become legendary. Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale's most distinguished son. But by those in the know...
...from French North Africa. Messages are sent to the U.S. via London. In peacetime the channels were sufficient; war overloaded them. The Army, starved for communications of its own, could not provide extra facilities for newsmen. Because military messages always have rightful priority, correspondents' dispatches have had to wait and the correspondents have been limited to 200 words nightly...
Censorship. Most of the correspondents are with the Allied forward units in Tunisia. They write their dispatches and have them censored in the field, then send them by courier to "AF HQ" at Algiers. Dispatches are stamped "censored at source," wait their turn for cable space, are then sent to London...