Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also tied up by the Senate committee were four proposals to limit the President and Vice President to one term; others to abolish the closed shop, to reorganize the Cabinet. So far as the House was concerned, all these could wait, but the Fulbright resolution was something else again. If it could not be submitted to the voters, it was at least going to get some public discussion...
Bogart and Becall are a team destined for a "two-hour wait for seats, please." When Lauren oozes out "I'm hard to get, Steve--all you have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...
...that he also is planning to surprise us with something hitherto unheard of in his rigorous life? All in all the prospects look so pleasant all the way from the banks of the Passaic to the shores of Oakland that all we can do now is to wait until the eighteenth for the happy boys, happy stories, and new acquisitions to roll back into Boston
Said Plant Manager Gerold P. Wieden-beck, well aware that his plan is expensive, and of no help to more complicated production jobs: "We could set up an efficient plant, but the batteries can't wait...
Pluggers operate throughout the country but work most feverishly in Chicago, Hollywood and Manhattan, where the important radio and nightspot entertainers can be buttonholed. On Hollywood's Vine Street, some 50 determined merchandisers lie constantly in wait for Bing Crosby, most highly sought contact in the business, since he is allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...