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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both, Duhig said. For room, the students tend furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 STUDENTS RETURN EARLY TO LOOK FOR OUTSIDE JOBS | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...pondering (TIME, Sept. 1) an order to fire on Nazi submarines or bombers in the area between Halifax and Iceland. Now the Germans had fired first, before his warning. The Germans seemed clearly in the wrong. When reporters filed in for press conference next day he did not even wait for questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Incidents | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...they did not mind having it known that a U-boat had tangled with the U. S. Navy- perhaps they thought the news would give the U.S. pause. 2) The U.S. Navy, which has long had warheads on its torpedoes, will not, next time if it can help it, wait to be attacked before attacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Results Unknown | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Specifically, Vichy was told not to let the Nazis move into Dakar. But if the U.S. decides it must take over Martinique, the French will be expected to surrender the island without resistance. (If they should resist, the U.S. will probably just ring the island with cruisers, wait for the French to surrender, without wasting either American or Vichyfrench lives in an attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Martinique Yet | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...believed it. Sala and Ouyerack together, with their disciples murdered three Eskimos who doubted that they were Messiahs. Two women and four children died two months later when a woman called Mina drove a whole village out on the ice of the Bay in a blizzard to wait for a visit from "Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Murderous Messiahs | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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