Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
Fuel men say there will be plenty of coal for Eastern home owners with coal furnaces if they get it in within 30-40 days. Consumers who wait until cold weather may find themselves worse off than oil furnace owners because then army ordnance shipments will be at a peak. Of 1,400,000 Eastern homes with oil furnaces, 700,000 can be converted easily to coal, but only 40,000 have been changed so far. The ration plan proposes that home owners who can convert furnaces but fail to do so shall get no extra ration...
Pilots have long been forbidden to fly for at least four days after sulfa treatment. The American Medical Association urges anyone who has taken the drugs to wait several days before driving an auto, making important decisions or signing important papers...
Introduced by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, who served as moderator, C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, started the national town meeting by calling for inter-allied co-operation in defeating the centralized aggressor. "We must not wait four years for a second Foch," he said. At the same time, the home front must see individual advantage subordinated to the common good...
...Long Wait. For more than two months General Sir Harold Alexander's British had crouched along the 35-mile front stretching from the Qattara Depression to the sea. Daily they had made sorties and feints, lashing at Rommel's advance posts, scuttling back to their own lines to bind their wounds and bat the flies. The flies were the worst. They swarmed over the unburied dead. They swarmed over the living, drove soldiers close to madness, until morale ran out and men prayed only for some kind of action. Now they...