Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years late. Because of the Japanese threat to India, he had postponed the ceremony. Taking to wife a third "wartime" bride on the advice of his high priest (three wives can better rule a ruler's heart than two in time of crisis), he had decided to wait patiently for the Japanese to go. Now, with the Japanese gone, he was back in his capital again. Up to his bomb-wrecked coronation hall he rode majestically on an elephant...
Fuel-oil stocks dropped rapidly as whole trains of tank cars were flagged down in the West to wait until the East had dug out of the snow. Oil stocks on the Atlantic Seaboard were one and a half million barrels short of a year ago, when reserves were uncomfortably...
...consumers would stop their mad rush to buy clothing and wait until midsummer, they might save themselves close to a billion dollars a year. Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...
...Feichi ch'a wan liao" ("The airplanes have finished bombing") an officer reports to the Chinese general. The general orders a ten-minute wait, hoping the Japs will poke their heads out of their dugouts to look for our infantry...
...sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left a deep impression; the idea of having nothing to do but watch and wait was not appealing...