Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issue of TIME-in-Paris: "I know our soldiers will really appreciate it." And it was the same all down the line. A mess sergeant pleaded: "Please don't leave TIME for the guys until after mess. If they get it while they're eating they wait and wait...
...wait for strength, air power would get its second, and probably greatest, test. By last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack...
...Europe, already set up near Reims, was a vast deployment center (about 60 sq. mi.). Into it had begun the march of veterans eligible for discharge. Some eligibles, specialists in their fields, would have to wait for trained replacements. The shifting of men by ones, by tens, by new temporary companies...
First off the mark was Rhode Island, which depends on racing for 8% of its state revenue. The betters jammed Narragansett Park 25,000 strong, could hardly wait to stuff $1,153415 (almost twice what they wagered on opening day last year) through the betting machines. In Chicago, a meager 13,673 turned up at Sportsman's Park, wagered an average $50 (against $37 on the same day last year). Other tracks joining the pony parade: ¶ Race-hungry Hollywoodish Santa Anita had planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help...
...meditation. His commanding officer came to his tent and asked if he would forego the privilege that day; Doss happened to be the only corpsman available to a company scheduled to attack an escarpment. Doss said: "Captain, it is fine with me, but you'll have to wait a few minutes while I read my Bible here...