Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough guy on the field because he wants to win. He's being paid to have a winning ball club and he earns his salary. The kids think him a great guy because he's the type of a fellow who can let important things wait in order to answer questions or help some kid with his baseball problem...
Officials estimated that 14,000,000 Italians would emigrate to the U.S. if they could. In Portugal, the wait was ten years, in Ireland eight, in Austria three, in Palestine two or more...
...Marshall warned: "We must not compromise on great principles in order to achieve agreement for agreement's sake." He reminded the world that misery could not wait: "We cannot ignore the factor of time involved here. . . . The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. . . . So I believe that action cannot await compromise through exhaustion...
...feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better a good reactionary than a bad Communist. We're willing to wait for the reactionary's children...
...China there is at present sad lack of contact and understanding. Communists and those they use . . . have succeeded in making Americans with some notable exceptions believe that China is only chaos, gloom, and doubt. ... So pervasive and persistent is that feeling that Americans prefer to sit back and wait, so far as China is concerned...