Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...
...program at the school will enable students to receive a terminal degree in engineering after two years of study, without having to wait for a doctor's degree, now awarded at the end of three years...
...more of a hindrance than a help. "We are fighting this war with our hands tied," he complained. "Our soldiers are not allowed to get closer than two kilometers to the Albanian border, but we have to take losses from shellfire from guns across the frontier. We have to wait for the U.N. people to come and look through their field glasses and scribble down a note. That's a hell of a way to fight...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...
Bobby too-who is normally the most self-confident man in the game-had learned to respect his rival. Said he: "I've had to change my game, of course. I like to stay back and wait for the ball but now I have to come up to the net after the serve and meet Jack's attack. Jack's ahead and he's a tough player but I ... still expect to come out ahead." For cocky Bobby Riggs, that was a decidedly modest prediction. With 50-odd matches still to go, the score in matches...