Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler broke the bone in two, gave half of it back to Hungary. Lately he has been telling both countries that the one which helps him the most in Russia will get the whole bone, for keeps. Now it looked as if neither Hungary nor Rumania cared to wait much longer...
This time Ford did not wait for the declaration of war. Making cars had become routine; all the problems were licked. As an automaker he was an old hand, getting kind of tired of it. Mass-producing tanks and bombers was new and exciting. The gigantic engineering and production problems took him back to his bicycle-shop days, when mass production was just a bright gleam in his eye. His "1,000 airplanes a day" was neither an idle boast nor a positive promise; it was just good American cockiness-the kind it took to make the first million Model...
...could not wait, it could risk its naval strength in sustained attacks on Japan's long sea lines from Yokohama to the Indies. The U.S. could choose its Pacific theater and commit the maximum of strength of planes, tanks and men to the chosen front. The U.S. might even have to choose between action against Germany in Europe and action against Japan in the Pacific, gambling that defeat of one would lead to defeat of the other...
These choices and decisions faced the Allies last week. The Axis would not wait. World War II would not wait...
During his stay in New York, Dr. Vila was impressed by the "great hurry" of everyone there. "It is so unlike us Latin-American," he said. "In my country there is nothing that can not be put off for a day. Writing a letter, studying, anything can wait...