Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made up its mind how it would share this bounty with the rest of the world. UNRRA was dying and new plans were not yet born. Meanwhile hungering millions everywhere were moving nearer to famine. They could only hope and wait...
...Jungle. Today, while the Indies wait upon The Netherlands' reaction to the pact, a truce-but no peace-prevails in Indonesia. The Indonesian Army, led by hotheaded young General Soedirman, continues to snipe at units of the 92,000 Dutch troops under Lieut. General S. H. Spoor. Actually, in Java the Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas...
Search for Herring. None of Britain's returning daughters had been able to adjust herself to life in Canada. It was also apparent that a few had not tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...
...Schine still lacks full control of the Ambassador. Said one California financier: "All Schine bought is the first place in line." But it was really more than that. Schine can now do one of three things: 1) acquire full ownership by paying bondholders off outright; 2) sit tight and wait for profits to wipe out the bonds; 3) sell certificates of his holdings to a higher bidder. Few people who know Schine expect him to sell...