Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Estonia's annual quota of 116 immigrants was already filled and there was a long waiting list. Captain Rull and his pilgrims must wait in their warehouse while lawyers appealed to Washington on the grounds of "humanity and public opinion." The law was tightly drawn, designed to be narrowly construed. It would be hard to find a loophole...
...Werth was not permitted to file his story until Radio Moscow broadcast it. That put the -whole world press ahead of Werth's weekly paper (it has no connection with the daily London Times'), which had to wait five full days before printing his "scoop...
...concert trips and recordings for RCA Victor, which last month released his first record: Oft in the Stilly Night and Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms. As for opera, Christy Lynch says: "Oh yes, one day I hope to do it. One fine day. But that must wait several years...
Many of the nine to twelve hundred hungry Freshmen who storm the Union three times a day still find the end of the chow line ten to twenty minutes away from the full tray. Most of these long-waiting Yardlings, according to a survey made by the Crimson, present various home-made theories of inefficient management as the cause of the trouble. Union management, however, has discovered that two of the lines can move at a top speed of seven men per minute, while the third, in the recently opened old Varsity Club Dining Hall, can serve five...
Through fellow Glaswegian Paul Vincent Carroll (Shadow & Substance) she finally landed a job as an understudy in The Divorce of Lady X. The producer of her next show, East Lynn, proposed after three days' acquaintance, but she decided to wait "a decent interval," got around to marrying him three weeks later. Only this year she joined the talented little group which calls itself The Company of Four...