Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London newshound, Tom Dozier, for smelling out a news story before Fleet Street did. Quite frankly, I was a little alarmed by his 'third degree' methods, but I must hand it to American journalism at its best-you do go after the news and don't wait for the news to come...
...done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case by telling all in public...
...give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...
Despite her mysterious ailment, Sandy grew strong. But after every swallow of food, says her mother, there was an agonizing wait to see whether she would start to choke...
...have been more accurate than those of most economists. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Slichter said businessmen like Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders were right in attacking the "psychology of fear" but, unlike them, Slichter did not think the economy's upturn would have to wait until people got back their confidence...