Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney with a hope and a prayer: "Week after week and month after month we wait for the aggressive leadership of which the Senator speaks...
...Allied world had to wait awhile for the full story of what happened in the Solomon Islands. Until the Marines had done their work, and the Navy was ready to tell the story, it was enough to know that this time the shells pounding the invaded islands came from U.S. ships. This time the bombs rending docks, ships, airdromes and troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed...
Over near his P-40 is Pat ("Cocky") Daniels of Los Angeles. "Wait'll I meet those Japs, I'll show you some real color," he once boasted. So they called him "Cocky...
...morning of June 4, the squadron, on its commander's hunch, left the main U.S. forces and flew west from Midway to hunt the enemy. They found him: an overwhelming force of three carriers screened by a fleet of cruisers and destroyers. There was no time to wait for fighter protection. Squadron No. 8 said the formal Navy communiqué later, "proceeded to attack at once without protection or assistance of any kind...
...Purp fails the Armed Forces are lying in wait to bury it with appropriate military honors. With the Navy's blessing, tough General Somervell, who finds Nelson's alleged raw-materials authority irksome anyway (TIME, Aug. 3), and tough Ferd Eberstadt of the Army & Navy Munitions Board, think they know a much simpler way to balance supply & demand. They would adopt a reasonable facsimile of Germany's plan-a warrant system whereby each war contract, when made, includes warrants to obtain specific quantities of materials at the specific times when they are needed. This is vertical allocation...