Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude of many a veteran, parked on his cushion, was: "I'll wait until things shake down." By the time things "shake down" he may find he has been shaken out. But these were matters for personal reflection and decision. The nation had tried to do its best...
Then "last August, when news of victory was broadcast . . . people all over went mad with joy, but happiest of all were the girls. . . .So now returned G.I.s make love easily. In dance halls today, it is the women that wait for the men. . . . Their yearning for men is like the yearning for rain during a drought. . . . In universities, the girls are like refugees who see meat and fish before them; girl students in enticing, flowery clothes gather around ragged boy students . . . competing with each other to gain [their] favors. . . . In the streets, no more is it men who stare...
Meanwhile most Hindu leaders adopted a wait-&-see attitude...
...content to wait for spring, or even a semblance of spring. Crew Coach Tom Bolles launched his five heavyweight eights onto the icy Charles yesterday afternoon in the face of driving snow flurries...
Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...