Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chan Gurney went on with General Marshall's attack on O'Daniel's proposal: "It means either too old or too late. If the amendment is adopted, the Army will be forced to complete its organization with men too old to do the job efficiently, or wait for the lapse of a year's time before it can fight...
...mile line between the Mediterranean and the wild, serrated Qattara Depression, the Germans had a fixed and deeply fortified front. Before and between their positions they had planted many thousands of land mines, barely covered by the sand, in wait for British tanks, artillery, trucks and troops. On the Eighth Army's side of the line, between the Germans and Alexandria, the British also had permanent fortifications and mines. Patrols from each side constantly wormed into the mine fields, cautiously uncovered the buried boxes of T.N.T., neutralized them with a twist of a screw and threw them aside...
...swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. A Russian freighter, near enough for Seaman Herman to see the sailors on her deck, had already been torpedoed and was sinking. Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea. Herman's ship could not wait. Rescue work, what there was time for, was up to the warships...
...Meal will be given twice a day. One plate only to one prisoner. The prisoners called by the guard will gice out the meal quick as possible and honestly. The remaining prisoners will stay in their places quietly and wait for your plate. Those moving from their places reaching for your plate wihtout order will be heavily punished. Same orders will be applied in handling plates after meals...
...pilots found themselves in heavy fire as they approached the U.S. bombers. For a while U.S. commanders had trouble persuading their gunners to fire when the Germans were many hundreds of yards away: the gunners, unused to their high-velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters in one battle over France last month (TIME, Oct. 19). Now the Germans apparently are also learning: they lost only nine fighters in a brush with U.S. bombers last week...