Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still Kicking. Three days later, returning East aboard a Union Pacific streamliner, the ex-President was stricken with a gall bladder attack. He had to wait five painful hours until a doctor could meet the train at Elko, Nev., give him shots of morphine, sulfa and penicillin. While ambulances and doctors stayed alerted all along the railroad to Chicago, Hoover, after a few hours' sleep, recovered fast enough to resume his gin rummy with his secretary. To a reporter who called on him, he said crisply: "I guess you just wanted to see if I was kicking...
Chief Bonne was right about the free treatment.* The illustrious patient promptly had his eyes examined, but he would have to wait about five months for his specs. One million three hundred thousand plain Britons were in the queue ahead...
...Wedemeyer had surveyed the scene in late IQJ? and reported to President Truman: the dangers to the U.S. in China were "as portentous as those leading to World War II." His recommendation: a sweeping fiveyear aid program, dependent on drastic domestic reforms in China. His prophetic warning: "A 'wait-and-see' policy would lead to ... disturbance verging on chaos, at the end of which the Chinese Communists would emerge as the dominant group." The U.S. did more than ignore Wedemeyer's recommendations. It suppressed release of his report until last week. In releasing it, Dean Acheson gave...
...boarding the transport in Naples harbor last week, Jan Olechny sold a few articles of clothing, bought some lemons as a gift for his family. Aboard ship an American officer told him Josepha and Riszard were eating lunch below desk. "I am sorry," he said, "you 11 have to wait." Obediently Jan sat down and waited...
...wait...