Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means "let the United States" as you say "make itself impregnable". But let us not wait for the attack on this hemisphere. Let us support our first defences. Let us make the sacrifice of American lives less likely. Let us be selfish but let us not be foolish. Philip Mayer...
This is no proposal to wait for a lull in the fighting. If one side is losing, it might welcome a chance to make peace now rather than suffer defeat. If one side is winning, it might be influenced by proof that there are those who will consider its claims in an atmosphere far removed from the frenzy and hatred of the warring nations' capitals. Both sides should see that the saving of suffering, poverty, and death by stopping the war now will make it easier to work out their problems. And active cooperation between the United States, the Catholic...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler led his column: "Now, just a minute. Wait a minute!" New York City's waddly Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia griped that the U. S. couldn't even protect Coney Island...
...blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head a new Ministry of Aircraft Production, the Allies' greatest armament need...
...Ambassador Charles Corbin and the Iranian Minister. Significant was this first official function Mr. Churchill had found time to attend. It was a safe guess that Mr. Churchill indicated no desire to jump The Netherlands East Indies. Still open, however, was the question of how long the Japanese would wait to see what Germany, the "protector" of The Netherlands, would do about her colonies. Saturday Mr. Churchill let it be known that his Government was seeking a "new and more friendly approach" to the Soviet Union, that two days earlier Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had had an important talk with...