Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly the White House switchboard went into action. Out to the scattered newsmen went a warning: stand by at the pressroom for news. Back to the White House, from home and bar and party, the newsmen scurried. They gathered outside Secretary Stephen Early's office, to whisper, wait and wonder...
They did not have to wait long. At 9 o'clock-3 a.m. on the coast of Africa where history was in the making-the news was out. The U.S. had undertaken a vast offensive aimed to control the Mediterranean (see p. 22), had started a train of events that would go far, and perhaps fast...
...Class of '45, who will fill the shoes of one-time ROTC men now serving on the battlefronts, received the anxiously awaited "promotions" two months ahead of the expected date. Although this class will not begin its third year work until next semester, and will have to wait for next spring's drills to assume their duties as sergeants, the precedent-breaking early notification will serve to clarify their military status, a fact which takes on added importance now that the 18-19 draft bill...
...Though they know about many weaknesses in the U.S. war effort, newsmen have been obliged to wait until they could report the facts circuitously as they come out of Congressional committee hearings and reports...
...three months of experience fighting tanks, began to bewitch and bewilder their opponents, almost swept them into the Cumberland time after time. They never seemed to sleep during a maneuver. They figured out where the tanks were likely to come (and usually they guessed right), then lay in wait to enfilade them, fleeing during the confusion, firing again from another angle. They reconnoitered all night, all day, maintained constant. radio communication with all units...