Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lafayette, which had 60 tons of steel to build additions to its stadium, decided that the stadium could wait, made the steel available to the War Production Board...
...morning after the Big Snow and Washington was digging itself out of a blizzard. The staff was in early, cleared desks, sat down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...
...here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still die, but the reason he kept on living for awhile was simply that hell would not have...
Undergraduates, except for Freshmen, will register on Saturday, June 27, if they wish, but may also wait until Monday or Tuesday. After that, registration will be in Wadsworth House instead of Memorial Hall, and will be subject to a five dollar fine...
...bonds for $10,000. The catch in the scheme was how to keep up a steady selling rate of $2 billions a month. The great banks and insurance companies, few in number, buy in huge blocks up to $100 millions at a time; then they sit back and wait for new funds to accumulate. But if sales of war bonds are to be no more than $600 millions a month, they will soon have to average $1.4 billions a month. The alternatives, under the voluntary plan: 1) a great increase in sales of war savings bonds; 2) heavy sales...