Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Commander Tunney: "There were Marine scouts all around. As for the party having trouble keeping up, actually we had to wait 15 minutes for the Army photographer. Both parts of the criticism are wrong...
During the weeks ahead I am almost sure some friend of yours will tell you how we had to ask him to wait when he asked us to enroll him as a new subscriber...
...imaginary maladies. He is wooed by redheaded Nurse Dinah Shore, whom he does not love, woos blond Nurse Constance Dowling, who loves his roommate. He does an uproarious rib of a Western musical, taking all parts, including that of the usher who keeps saying: "There will be a short wait for seats." Then Danny is drafted. En route to the South Pacific he sings the rapid-fire Melody in 4-F with the cold frenzy which only Danny Kaye can give it. Later he blunders into capturing some 20 Japanese and ends the picture as a hero...
...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...
...Asia is still a grade-B battlefront, must wait until Hitler is liquidated; 3) jungle tactics have not yet been mastered in the Southeast'Asia Theater...