Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early days when we had only a few editors and only a handful of correspondents and only one printer, there wasn't much to tell you about TIME that could not wait until we could say-it in our letter the next time we wrote you about your subscription...
Twoscore Parlier Township ranchers showed up for the trial. Before the trial started they talked with Justice of the Peace L. B. Crosby, 65. Mounting the bench, Justice Crosby said: "I guess we know how we feel about this. What shall we do?" He did not wait for an answer. He sentenced Multanen to six months in jail, promptly suspended sentence...
...Teamster without the approval of Teamster President Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin, 70, a rough, tough unioneer who dates back to Sam Gompers. (The monthly Teamster usually carries half a dozen articles signed by Uncle Dan.) A correspondent telephoned Tobin, asked about the editorial's authorship. Said Tobin: "Wait till I see it." There was a pause while he did, then: "Sure, I wrote it; my name...
...bazooka was borrowed and Charlie noticed that the sight was broken. A runner started back to battalion headquarters for a new sight, but the attack could not wait. With two scouts on his flanks to protect him, Charlie and his bazooka loader moved forward, the men of A Company trailing cautiously behind...
...Another reason for varying conditions is that pent-up demand for essential replacements will absorb some 1942 models (the first off the assembly lines), but at some point the public will hold back and wait for the much publicized postwar models. This procedure may produce inventory problems for merchants; it may also force manufacturers rapidly through two reconversions-first from war production to civilian production, 1942 style, then from 1942 to 1946 style...