Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through driving rain, Rotherhithe dockers and housewives plodded to the polls, elected Laborite Robert Joseph Mellish by a 4,444 majority. Twitted by jubilant Laborite Herbert Morrison, Tories replied: "Wait until tomorrow." With the U.S. Republican slogan "Had enough?" Tory leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden had energetically stumped the former Tory stronghold of North Paddington, which had only gone Labor in the last general election. But middle-class North Paddington elected Laborite William James Field by a 3,000 majority...
...year-old Miwo Murakawa, the "square American dance" was the biggest thing to hit Nagasaki since the atom bomb (which missed Miwo by just a mile). She quoted a farm woman: "Why have we had to wait for Americans to teach us such pleasures? Why have not the Japanese taught us such things...
...proposal was made by E. Scully Bradley, chairman of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, who demanded more of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wait Whitman while asserting at the 36th annual meeting, held in Atlantic City, that three-quarters of the country's high school teachers of English were trained primarily in English literature...
...that he had plenty of relaxing books to read ("my husband [goes] through a pile of books with the avidity of a swarm of locusts . . ."). Once he was in bed, she answered his phone calls all through the night. Usually the calls came from enthusiastic civilians who could hardly wait to tell the General about their brand-new scheme for destroying enemy tanks, etc. But once, at 3 a.m., when Mrs. Marshall had patiently insisted that she be allowed to take the message, the voice at the other end snapped indignantly: "Yes, I'll give you the message. This...
This year the Council felt that little could be done towards any considerable revival of tutorial. While expanded enrollments overtax the staffs of most departments, such a revival must wait. However, as you pointed out, this is an issue that should not be left to die. While the patient is in an oxygen tank, somebody's got to keep pumping oxygen...