Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians have tucked away in savings? No, says Prophet Cherne. "Everything will compel you to hold on to your money rather than spend it. ... There will be termination [of war contracts], unemployment . . . take-home pay will fall because of the reduction in hours and overtime. You're going to wait for prices to come down . . . for new products. . . . Most important, the war economy didn't tighten your belt too uncomfortably. . . . You haven't been starved enough so you'll want to rush out madly and buy. People won't be letting go." In effect he dismisses the everyone-will...
Dour Day. Aside from whatever lift of spirit that fact gave him, D-day found Ike Eisenhower in one of his worst moods. The Supreme Commander had little to do but wait in galling idleness during the slow-treading hours before the vast fleets of landing craft and gliders could put their troops ashore, and some vestige of order begin to appear out of the vast amphibious chaos...
...bobtail that has become embedded in a remarkably assimilative mind. The Laski argument is developed in sweeping assertions. The world has suffered a breakdown in values. It is hungering for a new religion. But traditional Christianity will no longer fill the bill, for modern man is not willing to wait for pie in the sky. The new heaven must be an earthly one; the new priests must be secular. For his new religion, Laski turns to Soviet Russia, where men make a fetish of community and a faith of cooperation. Laski substitutes the state for ritual, the shared consumption...
While we're in the electing mood, we think that "our girl" Helen, our current "wait-for-early-in-the-morning-outside of-classrooms-girl," should be elected to some honor. Certainly anyone who wields the power over us as she does should be put into some office. She is truly a "leader...
...Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from jail last December, ever since had been plotting the Dictator's overthrow. He did not have long to wait...