Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackles are John Cohen, one of those threatened by the draft, and Wait Moeling, a Senior who weighs in at 228 pounds. Al Brechkaand Mort Sheikman hold down the guard positions and Don Bitler, a fine line backer, is at center...
Once I saw Kittredge in the railway station in New York walking among the people waiting to take the train, and apparently offering something for sale with poor results. I asked him what on earth was going on, and he explained he had bought a ticket for this train and then found he could not get a parlor car seat, so he was trying to sell his ticket, wait an hour and get a seat where he could do some work. "Every man I approach thinks I'm a crook," he said...
...bottom of the steps a subway rumbled up. People pushed for the turnstiles. Vag fumbled for two dimes. Keys, paper clips, everything small and bothersome came out of his watch pocket--but no dimes. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a dollar, then had to wait in line for the cashier. Just as they got through the turnstile, the subway's doors shut with a grim thud and it nosed down into the dark underground passage. They got the next one all right, but it was so filled that Vag couldn't get her a seat till after...
...came, we stood, (you'll have to wait weeks to get seats), and it conquered. It doesn't happen very often--"Life with Father" is the closest to it we've seen since we got the play-going habit--but when it does it's downright faith-renewing. What we're trying to stop laughing long enough to tell you is that That Play with the two nice little murderous ladies in it has finally found its way to Boston and if you haven't got a strong heart all the dying won't be done of the stage...
Usually the Nazi-submarines lay in wait below Freetown to catch single ships before they could be made up into large, heavily defended convoys. For attacks on convoys the Nazis developed a shrewd tactic. A fleet of six submarines lay submerged on a convoy lane, their engines off. When the prey appeared, one of the submarines started its engines and drew away, pulling the escorting warships, following their listening devices, after it. Then the five silent submarines got into action together...