Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies together already have the essential implements for victory-troops, tanks, aircraft and arms. There is no time to wait until the last button is sewn on the uniform of the last soldier. Sometimes you have to fight, not under the conditions that are desired, but under the conditions that are unavoidable. In such a case you quickly have to change your plans and adapt yourselves to new circumstances...
...rest, life had settled into a galling pattern: take the bombing, watch the Jap, wait, wait, wait...
...Aussies whom General Blarney brought home with him greatly reinforced the Australian and U.S. troops already strung from the south coast to bombarded Darwin. He must wait many months before enough U.S. troops and supplies can arrive to make Australia much more than a holding point against the Japanese. But General Blarney may soon have to hold Australia. Said he last week: "We are going to have a go for our lives. We are going to give the Japs a bloody stiff...
...correspondents were left to fight the battle of transmission. Before the war the South Pacific had eight cables, several big radio stations. Only two cables remain, one of them a slow, alternate route around Africa. These puny facilities are jammed by Government priority messages; correspondents sometimes have to wait in line for as many as 400 Government code messages...
This week ice breakers are out, smashing a channel to the Soo canal. Behind them Coast Guard boats are placing buoys, checking lights. At the ore docks, 70-ton cars of ore from the fabulous Mesabi range wait for the first ships, the Great Northern Railway men stand by, ready to smash a record made last October-333 ships loaded, at an average time of 2 hr. 35 min. per ship...