Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
...impressed" by the Franco performance. He pointed instead to his own manifesto of last March (TIME, April 2), urging Franco to resign and make way for a democratic monarchy. In a Pretender, patience and perseverance are almost prerequisites, and in his 14 years abroad Don Juan had learned to wait...
...might have to wait some time. For at week's end Generalissimo Franco played his own prince. Through "informed diplomatic quarters" he let it be known that he was thinking of offering the kingship to Prince Alfonso Jaime, 9, son of Pretender Don Juan's elder (and deaf) brother Don Jaime, 37, who renounced his claim to the throne...
...North. Then the U.S. fleet dropped over the horizon. Was that the end? Would Halsey hit again? Of course he would. But when & where? The enemy could only wait and wonder...
Ribbons & Spoils. Next morning the U.S. and British military governments took full command of their respective sectors. (The French had to wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...