Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhukov's men did not wait. Like a multi-toothed clamp, the Red Army sent piercing thrusts into the outer districts, tightening the pressure all around. Suddenly the Russians were everywhere in the ring of industrial districts and workers' suburbs to the north and east. The first deep piercings were among the wreckage of the rows of dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism...
...Senate voting record on foreign policy was consistent, never tinged with Midwestern isolationism. He is committed to carrying out the Roosevelt plan for world security, and in a speech last month in Chicago he said: "We must not wait for a perfect international plan. . . . We must act, and act promptly. ... As we united in victory, we must unite in peace." His friends predict that in international dealings (i.e., bases, air routes, etc.) he will be a shrewd bargainer, with U.S. interests firmly in mind...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...
...longer will Subscriber Charles Brown Jr. have to wait three to four months to find out how the war is going and what is happening here at home...
...Ruhr industries were lost to Germany; but the war was much too far along for the Allies to sit back and wait for the loss to take effect. So long as Germans held the Ruhr, they 1) blocked several east-west trunk rail lines and highways, thus complicating the Allied supply problem; 2) kept the Allies away from the Ruhr's coal; 3) held a base for possible guerrilla war in the Allied rear; and 4) tied down at least five infantry and one armored division, identified in dispatches, and probably several others as well...