Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen in these interim years demonstrated his No. 1 quality as a commander: his men came first. At home in El Paso, he was forever getting up in the middle of the night to get them out of jail. "My men never keep me waiting," he would say. "I won't make my men wait for me." Said an officer who served with him: "He was absolutely loved by his men. He always believed he could give his men all the hell they needed without help from anybody else...
...telephone bell rang. It was such an absurd sound out there some men jumped. An enlisted man answered: "Hello . . . wait a minute," and he shouted: "Hey, where's that wireman, anyone seen that wireman...
Next week it will wait in vain. For the second time in 62 years, Newport will have no Tennis Week. World War II has blasted Newport tennis off the courts-as World War I did in 1917.* Also blasted off the big-time summer tennis circuit are Seabright, with its 56 courts flanked by trees, estates; and Longwood, with its box-square stands flanked by bus and trolley lines out of Boston...
...that disconnected administration and overlapping agencies prevent the Indians from getting even $30,000,000 worth of medical service. Dr. Grant believes that only a beginning can be made in a public health program at present (e.g., by establishing a few school health services), that real health progress must wait until India's 88% illiteracy rate is reduced, since much of India's bad health and insanitary practices are due to the ignorance, apathy and superstition of the Indians themselves...
...citizens got Ration Book No. 3 by simply dipping into the mailbox. For Ration Books 1 & 2 they had had to wait in line and fill out questionnaires. The slick new red-tape-slashing scheme had gotten its inventor, Philip Holzer, 24-year-old OPA clerk (TIME, May 3) a temporary draft deferment and had given the U.S. Post Office its biggest delivery...