Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have prepared for ourselves a very simple program. In the first place, under all circumstances, we must hold whatever must be held. . . . Let the others attack as much as they wish wherever we have no intention to advance. We must . . . wait to see who tires soonest...
Rough and rambunctious, uniformed as sailors but fully aware that their civilian status permits nose-thumbing at M.P.s, the 13-week volunteer trainees sneer at their $50-a-month pay, wait for the day they sign on for double pay of $200 a month, or $250 for those qualifying for higher ratings. Extra bonuses for a voyage to dangerous ports come to about...
...plans will come. No one can know the final details; no one can say when they will come; no one can guarantee the students will not be subjected to weekly barrages like that which rained upon Cambridge yesterday. We can only wait, confident that the final blueprint will be no slipshod affair...
...does the playwright do this in war time? Because emotional set-ups are a dime a dozen; because the types are twice as apparent as they ever were before. So it looks like the critics will have to wait till this epidemic of symbolitis blows over before they can expect first rate war drama. As a matter of fact, it probably won't disappear altogether until after the armistice...
...futilities and the dangers of holding that "social reform can wait until after the war" are amply demonstrated by the present excitement in Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment...