Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady 30 m.p.h. Two hours behind them the rest of the division-infantry, artillery, engineers and miscellaneous outfits-were pounding along at the standard speed. Here was a chance for a two-hour rest. The division commander, Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, had ordered the troop to wait for the division north of Abbeville, go on into Fort Benning, Ga., in tight column...
...more revealing report on Count Teleki came from the typewriter of Columnist Dorothy Thompson, to whom last year he gave a monograph he had written on the structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe...
Last week in the Blue Ridge foothills at Marion, Va., a coffin was lowered into a grave. In it was the burly body and curious brain of Sherwood Anderson, paint manufacturer, ad writer, editor, short-story teller, novelist, poet, American. The grave had had to wait more than two weeks. Anderson died at Colon, Panama...
...setting up optional fronts for attack if the attack on the British Isles fails or is abandoned. The principal optional front is the Mediterranean area, with an attack on Gibraltar or Suez or both. Another optional front is West Africa. A third is the Ukraine, but that must wait until the attack on England has succeeded or failed. Meanwhile Germany risks harassment from the rear and eventual attack through the Balkans...
...Well," she said, "tell them to hurry up and come in. It is not the kind of war that will wait for you. It will come...