Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatness in a man is too often measured by the amount of publicity he received. Many a man has had to wait until the hand of death opened the eyes of the world to the greatness of him who had passed...
...bench he was politically immobilized; thus far he had rejected all overtures to move into a war job that would put him back in the political arena. The Douglas cure looked like a long-term proposition, the Byrnes treatment was merely first aid, and time and political tide wait for no party...
Pearl Harbor came too late for Colonel Demas T. ("Nick") Craw of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Congenitally unable to wait for war, he took his fighting when & where he found it as a ("neutral") military observer in the Middle East and Europe...
When the Axis entered Athens some U.S. officials stayed behind. One day Nick's car brushed the fender of another carrying an Italian lieutenant and two privates. The lieutenant leaped from his car, slapped Craw. Again Nick did not wait for a declaration of war; the beautiful Italian uniform flopped in the dusty street. A German officer pulled Nick off the two privates...
...further stressed that Faculty committees were working on the problem, and that they also would have to wait for definite action from Washington until any reports to the student body could be attempted...