Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt, who loves good news, went beaming to his meeting with Good Neighbor Prado. The less optimistic might wait and wonder, but Franklin Roosevelt was confident of a victory won. The thunderheads broke; the rain poured down. The skies brightened. Said the first Navy communiqué: "Very excellent news has been received...
...nation, sore and grim over the fall of Corregidor, dared not be so sure. Nobody knew the U.S. losses; commentators reserved comment; the public waited, they would patiently wait all this year, for further news...
...needed New Jersey's colorless Senator William Smathers re-elected this November (the Senator's only achievement is riding the New Deal coat tail) and knew he needed Hague's machine to turn the trick. Edison and his fight to clean up New Jersey politics must wait. Mr. Roosevelt's Justice Department took a look at Mr. Meaney and promptly pronounced him "superior" to the three other candidates...
...once he declared he would appeal. His readers could hardly wait...
...across the Pacific sky the world-taunting reply: "Who wants to know where the Fleet is?" But in this modern naval battle Chester Nimitz' job kept him from taking personal part. With the ships under way, with all but the last-minute orders sent, his job was to wait here, in exquisite suspense, for the good or bad news, while men of lesser rank did the fighting, won the medals, and risked his ships in action. That was enough to make any man tense...