Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fully convinced that nothing comes to those who wait, the Varsity ball team yesterday turned away from Hanover and its spring rain storms, and prepared to tidy itself up to greet Princeton's high-riding champions tomorrow afternoon...
...base at Port Moresby on the south shore of New Guinea, seemed willing to spend men and planes recklessly to drive the United Nations from their bases there. He also smashed at Darwin, but with less determination, presumably because it was harder to get to, and because it could wait its turn...
...endless detail of new plans for operations over his vast domain, from Alaska to the continental shelf of Australia. There would be more battles, other carefully calculated sallies against the Jap. Some would be victories. Some might be defeats. Chester William Nimitz would send out the orders-and wait...
...Army Signal Corps decided not to wait any longer for the petticoat army to materialize, started recruiting women radio and telephone operators along with men. They will serve (as men do) as civilian specialists...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...