Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screamed that Gavam was trying to sabotage the deal and warned him against following that "dangerous road." His attitude, Pravda averred, was "dictated by certain foreign circles." Soviet Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov pounded on Gavam's desk, demanded immediate action. Gavam answered smoothly that the matter would have to wait its turn on the parliamentary schedule...
...will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
President Truman last month asked the steel industry to "wait and see" before raising prices. The industry waited nine days, then one by one the major companies boosted prices an average of $5 to $7 a ton (TIME, Aug. 4 et seq.). This week, the Federal Trade Commission, headed by Chairman Garland S. Ferguson, cracked back on the industry. FTC charged steel with conspiracy to fix prices...
...sharp-eyed Joaquim Rolla, owner of the Quitandinha Hotel. Anxious to stamp a legitimate "Quitandinha" dateline on the deliberations, Rolla got the Brazilian Government to install a postoffice in the building. Recently his pressagent, dining a group of reporters at the lakeside chalet, hopped up and cried, "Wait a minute, gentlemen." The reporters, forks in midair, waited. "Remember," he shouted, "this is to be the Quitandinha Conference...
...baffled investor could make of this brouhaha was that the market was in an interesting condition. And from the frequency of the labor pains, he would not have long to wait to see what the offspring looked like...