Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvos. Late in the grey, gusty afternoon of the next day, while Montgomery was in staff conference, word reached him of Friedeberg's return. He let the Germans wait-ten minutes, 20 minutes. Then, still deliberate, he walked to his van and sent for Friedeberg. The German commander came, puffing a cigaret to its finger-burning end. A few moments later he emerged, his shoulders drooping. With the others he walked quickly to a brown tent with two of its sides rolled up. They sat stiffly at a plain trestle table covered with a grey blanket...
Harold Knutson snapped that he would wait and ask it of a witness of ordinary intelligence...
...resurrection of the plan was only a part of the great step WPB took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...
Since the death of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis last November, baseball's big-league club owners had fumbled the question of naming a new commissioner. Some insisted that a successor should be named at once; others wanted to wait, perhaps until after the war. One sure thing was that no one wanted another Landis...
...present system of tenure, drawn up by the 1939 Committee, is placed on a rational basis, it is said. It provides for replenishment of the teaching staff, sets salaries, and makes it possible for a man to know what he can expect so that he won't have to wait until someone dies or retires. Flexibility of finances is fundamental to the system, which has been copied in many other universities...