Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women must still wait for nylons (Byrnes's explanation: "When I thought we had all the nylon we needed for parachutes, I found we needed it for tires. Then, when we found we had all we needed for tires, we were told that cotton netting used in the Pacific was rotting and we'd have to use nylon there. Then it was decided that knapsacks could be made much lighter with nylon...
After months of convalescence, Private Holland wrote a letter home to West Conshohocken, Pa., to his sweetheart, Doris Jane Ruth: "Don't wait for me, I'm pretty shot...
Ushers for Götterdämmerung. Armies did not wait for high politics. Occupation was a fact, carried out under long-prepared directives as detailed as they could be without decisions on what occupation was intended to accomplish...
...most of it. Without a by-your-leave from other southern Governors, who have an equal grievance against the railroads, Arnall bypassed the lower courts, rushed Georgia's case right to the Supreme Court. There he will argue his cause himself. In his haste he did not wait for the Interstate Commerce Commission, where the eleven casual Commissioners have been conducting their own investigation of southern freight rates for over five years...
...spring a Red Army colonel, red-headed as Dr. Frumkin, was brought in with such a wound. With the colonel's permission, Dr. Frumkin decided to chance an operation that most doctors frown upon: he would give the colonel another man's testicle. The operation had to wait until the right donor was found, someone newly dead whose blood type matched the colonel's. The needed gland was eventually supplied by a young man killed in a streetcar accident...