Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next fall will make a point of separating church and state. Ben-Gurion and other leaders rarely turn up at synagogues. Jews are not supposed to travel in vehicles on the Sabbath but they do today in Israel. Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, a brisk, urbane statesman, did not even wait for a reporter to ask him about it. Said Shertok: "And if you're going to ask whether the trains and buses are going to run on the Sabbath, I can tell you right now-they...
...House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait to see the whites of their eyes...
...that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout, "Don't make trouble! Hand over your money!" Those who have no money are cursed and beaten...
...Just Wait." Hughes has no office, apparently because offices are too easily invaded by people. He likes to make business appointments at out-of-the-way spots, usually at night, and he is always 20 minutes to two hours late, if he shows up at all. He lives in a rather ornate house rented from Gary Grant, to which very few male visitors are admitted, and on which he seems to have made no marks of his own occupancy. He has no chauffeur, no cook, no valet-in fact, no servants in the ordinary sense but a quartet of aides...
...Howard Hughes. Pink slips were going out to over half of the employees. Just starting this week, however, was a picture that would be right down Hughes's alley-a virile saga of professional football (the Los Angeles Rams) called Interference, starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball. "Just wait," someone said, "until Junior gets his teeth into that...