Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rated Woodrow Wilson the greatest man of his day had to wait 25 years for most of America to find it out. . . . Mr. Barringer had better wait till those of us who were contemporaneous with Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and "F.D.R." have passed on and world historians have given Franklin Delano Roosevelt his niche in history. Maybe then some Americans will have learned to rate him fairly...
...President had to get on with the overwhelming business of history. Last week, having loosed a new force upon the world and welcomed a new ally into the Pacific war, a part of his business was to wait and to wonder, like other men, whether all that he had done had been worthwhile...
...Long Wait. The official version of this answer to the Japs was 17 hours on the diplomatic route from Washington to Bern to Tokyo. The Japanese press and domestic radio, silent on the proposals and counterproposals themselves, alternately prepared the Japanese people for surrender and for a finish fight...
...third day of the long wait, Press Secretary Ross took pains to point out that the signing of actual surrender terms would take two or three days and that the President would not proclaim final victory until the last formality had been completed...
...soon as they are crated, the new refrigerators are trucked off to government warehouses, to be picked up at the convenience of the Army, Navy and various claimant agencies of the government. Until the military or the agencies give the word, civilians will have to wait-at least until late fall...