Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year he had the U-boats working in "echelons of divisions," patrolling in three lines or more abreast, the center line ahead of the two flanks, the U-boats strung out in a herringbone pattern astern of the leader. In perfect coordination, this array of underwater raiders lay in wait for convoys previously spotted by scouts or long-range air reconnaissance. By night, submerged, they moved under the convoy. When they came up, a few of them would draw the convoy's escort vessels off. The rest could then pick off their targets at leisure, firing by direct control...
...hopelessness in China now arises from the knowledge that the only possible solution is a military one, and that that solution must wait for the defeat of Hitler...
They pass into the Common and then sit down to wait. After not very long, they are walking up a grassy hill hanging onto a sailor's arm. The surprise and distress which this one revelation brought to me cannot easily be conveyed. To say the least, I was struck with abhorrence...
...icebreaker made it, but all the freighters were trapped in the icy fastness of Whitefish Bay. Even the Sainte Marie's propeller, which sucks water from under the ice so that its heavy bow can more readily pulverize it, could not free them-they just had to sit & wait for a thaw...
...wait to count their chickens before they are hatched; they count them before the eggs have even been laid. Last week one of the country's largest hatcheries would not promise delivery on any new orders for chickens before...