Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked an Englishman when he expected to get his new car, however, and he said 'three years.' He may have to wait six years, and as a result the used car market in Britain (there is up to a 100% purchase tax on new cars) is flourishing. I saw a 1936 Packard on sale for $4,000, and a 1947 Studebaker should bring around...
...from New Orleans to Tampa by coach at night requires two changes, and a four-hour wait at Jacksonville. The only sleeper from Atlanta to Nashville bumps to a stop 43 times in ten hours. It has only recently become possible for a passenger to cross the country without changing trains-at the price of two hours of shunting in Chicago yards while the car is scrubbed and the air conditioning wavers erratically...
...currently startled by the sudden insertion of a 60-second commercial. After a hasty, soap-opera-type synopsis of previous action, the film resumes. Jerry Danzig, CBS associate director of programs, explained this reversion to the old nickelodeon technique: "A sponsor won't buy a picture and wait an hour for sponsor identification." He added, ominously: "We're establishing a precedent...
Last week in Rome, 84-year-old Santayana had two more books in completed manuscript and one in the polishing stage; but he was determined that the publication of all three would have to wait till after his death. One is a book of allegorical verse, emphatically entitled Posthumous Poems. Another is the final volume of his autobiography, in which, his friends believe, he has discussed other persons and places with an old philosopher's candor. The third is Dominations and Powers, a long-awaited philosophical study of politics, and the only one of his books he believes...
Time. That's one of the handicaps Harvard must overcome. The practice clock is running out, and the Varsity is still more or less in fundamentals. "We're never going to get fancy until we have precision," warns Valpey. Pitchouts and end-arounds will presumably have to wait until the single-wing fundamentals are polished to gem-like brilliancy...