Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Koenig and his 3,000 Parisians, Bretons, Moroccans and Hitler-hating Germans settled down to wait for the inevitable. It was inevitable that Field Marshal Rommel, having bypassed Bir Hachéim in the expectation that it would be a pushover, only to find it a stubborn thorn, would devote his full fury to the place. Every day for ten days there had been attacks by Italian troops, stiffened by a few Germans. Every day Koenig's band had thrown the attacks back with the old French favorite, the 75-mm. cannon...
...Wait & See. Hap Arnold has made no predictions. He has marshaled the beginnings of what will soon be the greatest air force in the world, has already shipped some of it to Britain to join in the Big Push. But Army airmen have learned better than to talk as loudly as Billy Mitchell did. All they say is: "Wait...
...manner, as in matter, Gladys Schmitt is unqualifiedly ambitious, almost Elizabethan. Even in the act of love her heroine's mental talk runs, for a full page, like this: "No, wait, wait for me. Do not leave me among old injustices and unanswered calls. Hold me, bear me up lest my hand, trailing back through fathomless water, encounter a dead man's face." Rather more successful is Carl's image of Ellie: "Oh, she is mad ... she veers like an abandoned ship on wild water by night, all sails down, and the wheel spinning first left, then...
According to Bingham, however, the only outside contests will be with service teams, which will mean that regular season competition will have to wait until September...
Freshman won't have to wait until they can sign up for specialized training before they begin to play a part in the war effort. The War Service Committee offers them opportunities for part-time volunteer civilian defense work of all kinds as well as a chance to give blood to the Red Cross blood bank, and to buy victory bonds and stamps in their House dining halls...