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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marching Off. When a truck picked up their "B" bags (which are checked through to destination) the men knew they had not long to wait. Then their outfit was alerted; they were on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - LOGISTICS: Farewell to America | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

This week the ship was free of the mud. The danger interval was past. But newsreel crews, photographers and reporters watching from their gallery along the elevated highway would play through many a stud game before the job was finished. The Navy would have to wait longer still before the reborn Lafayette made people forget the burned Normandie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Up from the Mud | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Improvements must wait until after the war, but by obtaining these parcels the Rockefeller interests consolidated the western flanks of Rockefeller Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Rockefeller Center Expands | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...barelegged strides may have brought ohs and ahs from the Radcliffe girls but the only noticeable Yard Cop comment was "ahem!" plus a quick nab for "indecent exposure." So it was defeat again, but the little man still has a few more tricks up, his sleeve, just you wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scooters Here, Shorts There, He's Back Again, By Golly | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...propagandists couldn't wait to get on the air with the news: Mussolini has fallen. They wanted to make a point: "The essential nature of the Fascist regime has not changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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