Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 20 girls. Most of the others have something like three incoming lines and one outgoing for about 50 girls. And it's just as bad for the inmates as it is for the callers: they never know how many calls they aren't getting, they have to wait to make a call, and, in a token gesture to keep the lines free, they aren't supposed to talk for more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers...
...their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There's plenty for an engineer to do here too." This cheers everybody, somewhat...
...lucky to have a manufacturer [Katzenbach & Warren, Inc.] who lets me design pretty much as I please. And I'm not dependent on inspiration. I'm dependent on what I wish to do. This does not mean I work without inspiration-I just don't wait for it; I work, and sometimes it comes...
Many doctors who vainly fought the act through the British Medical Association (TIME, March 1) remain unconvinced. The Labor Government was smart, grumbles the B.M.A. unofficially, in starting the service in July, when sickness rates are lowest: just wait until winter epidemics start jamming the doctors' already crowded offices...
...gangsters, a torch singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crew of antiquated musicologists, the yarn gets in the way of the hot licks. The plottiness dooms Kaye to the role of master of ceremonies. He handles his interludes adroitly, but some are overlong. And a hep cat can't wait...