Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt last week followed Winston Churchill's example and set up an inner War Cabinet. At its head he put the man who is his titular assistant, but whose only job traditionally is to preside over the Senate and wait around in case the President dies: Vice President Henry Agard Vallace...
From the 19-and 20-year-old fighter pilots they learned that it has been standard R.A.F. practice to "stooge around" the French and Low Country airports when the tired Nazi bombers return to base, wait for them to slow down and flash their recognition lights, then pounce on them and "brown them off when the Nazi pilot is thinking 'Now for a beer...
...Attention: the keys turn in the lock, but for the affair of 300 square meters it is necessary to wait yet a few days...
...effort to get on with the war in spite of the fact that India's politicians still refuse to wait till war's end for India's promised dominion status, the British Raj last week appointed seven "distinguished and representative" Indians to posts in the Viceroy's Executive Council...
Somewhere off San Francisco, its radio silent and its whereabouts unknown, the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru lay in wait early this week-unwilling to land until it was sure its cargo would not be seized as a result of U.S. freezing orders (see above). The cargo: $2,500,000 worth of raw silk, which a special train waited to take to Eastern mills...