Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gent who devised every Bostonian's favorite quote, "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a minute and it will change," omitted a trio of vital words... for the worse. California was never like this...
...Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet, aromatic pipe tobacco, please.' Or a pack of those little cigars. Or a box of snuff. Then they pop the stuff in their handbags quick, spin around and beat...
Outnumbered ten to one, the British had no choice but to post machine guns at the exits from the square and pray for a quiet night. A stolid British sentry locked Daser's door from the outside and sat down to wait. When a German pillbox on the town's outskirts began to fire aimless machine-gun bursts, the British sent in to ask if the general would not stop it, since surrender had been agreed upon. Answered testy General Daser...
...Into the valley of Death ... no, no, no! You'll have to wait for the official communique before you mension where the figting is takeing place. You could mension there was patrol activity in certin areas, but you're not allowed to state the actuel place.' (Slash...
...Albany, the wind was raw and sharp as the Governor of New York and his wife -both in solemn mood-boarded the train for Manhattan to vote, and then to wait a nation's decision. In Manhattan, 78 people were in line ahead of the Deweys in the Park Avenue precinct. The others stood aside, despite Dewey's protest that "We haven't anything else to do today. We can wait...