Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the benefit of my clinical training in the Read method. It was almost unbelievable that two deliveries in the same general atmosphere could be so different. During the labor with my first child, I was scared to death, expecting the worst, and experiencing it. I couldn't wait for the anesthetic. My second delivery was a natural childbirth with no anesthesia, and no desire...
...President said that he still wanted a $4 billion tax increase. Next day, the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates all tax bills, promptly put the measure on ice. North Carolina's conservative, old (85) Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, the committee chairman, wanted to wait & see if a slump really was developing...
...make excursions into the area of policy. More than this, however, the new style in the Yard can successfully introduce first-year men to the ways and means of democratic organization when they enter the College. Freshmen can handle their affairs while they are freshmen-and not have to wait a year...
...technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants, endlessly cadged and figured and wangled. As their savings dwindled, many became desperate. Some stowed away...
Norway recognized this hard fact. And her sympathies remained unbudgeably with the West. Back in Halvard Lange's Oslo, Nils Evensen, 34-year-old cabbie, pointed to his new streamlined Studebaker taxi and said: "If I had to wait for a Russian car, I'd be jobless all my life...