Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult, a brand new inoculation for plague had been ordered. That meant a seven-day wait. Meanwhile, the ATCman in New Delhi had found the original passage money he claimed Sherrod had not given him . . . etc. Eventually, Sherrod got to China...
...only Tory woman M.P. was addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...
When the casual observer, having overshot Langdell Hall, lands in someone's back yard and mutters, "It's not much, but it's a roof over your head," the occupants smile and retort: "It doesn't look like much from here, but wait till you get inside." In one corner of a large living room, paneled in something resembling oak, is a sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place...
...West itself, reaction was largely of the wait-&-see variety. General Manager Louis Lundberg of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce commented: "In the long run the West Coast will have more abundant steel and finally cheaper steel." But Denver Post Editor E. Palmer Hoyt came closer to what was in the public mind. Said he: ". . . Westerners now should back the Attorney General with watchfulness against any attempt at monopolistic practices...
...were crowded with spectators, but there was an empty one nearby. "Can't play there," yelled an even younger official with a baseball cap, "that's for the team." Vag asked about the courts across the way. "Are you for credit?" asked the boy. "Then you'll have to wait your turn." "Well, this isn't the first time," offered Vag generously. "It won't be too long, will it?" "We're all filled up today, maybe just before it gets dark...