Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's apparently panicky shifting of French allegiances left the world wondering who, exactly, was loyal to whom. Final answers to that question would have to wait. But sensational rumors said that many French officers who, for the moment, seemed enemies were really devoted to the same long-standing cause: the restoration of the French monarchy. Those in France naturally still found it expedient to placate Adolf Hitler. Those in French Africa found it profitable to side with the U.S. invasion forces. There was even a special advantage in this dualism: the monarchist movement was hedged against...
...reader audience is so enormous, his influence so great, that on the heels of any great event many an Angeleno says: "Let's wait and see what Boddy thinks about...
...Department official promised a conclusive announcement in the near future--probably within a week. Meanwhile, as the colleges wait for the long demanded blueprint fitting them into their place in the fight for their existence, and for all that they represent, the advice to students of the War Manpower Commission is to continue studying...
...concerned the war, the mandate was clear: the Republican Party was now a full-fledged partner. No longer could the Republican minority in Congress sit by as grandstand critic, make its protests for the record, leave policy up to the New Deal, take none of the responsibilities and wait to capitalize on the mistakes. Henceforth, if the war went badly, the G.O.P. would share the blame...
...wait and let them get their feet firmly planted on a springboard for assault would be suicidal. There was nothing to do but go out and cut their feet from under them...