Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to inspection. This dandy little item gets the young lads worked up to such a degree of suspense, they all but become neurotic wrecks. After settling everything in apple-pie order in a mad hurry, they wait for hours for the colonel to make his appearance and see if the buttons are polished...
Some of the truth about the incredibly tangled situation leaked out from Washington last week in little whiffs of rumor, in planted "true stories" circulated by each interested faction. The whole truth would have to wait for historians. In general outline, the plan appeared to be like this: On or about April 1 the President is to appoint Corcoran as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of air. Perhaps sooner, Robert Lovett* will be made Assistant Secretary of War in charge of air. Robert Lovett, 45, a World War I Navy ace, publicly an unknown, is an able, coolheaded...
...must pick up his College work where he left off, take his Divisional or General Exams, do tutorial, write his thesis, and finish his remaining Law work. This is a brief-case full of work to say the least, and his last year will be a hair-raising wait for news of the two degrees which hang in the balance...
...years ago a voracious Freshman was to wait only eight more days before he began the famous goldfish-eating craze, and things around the College certainly were not dull what with the swimming team trying to acquire a red Arctic goose for a mascot, with another wayward Yardling going out for a midnight snack in his brightest pajamas, and with the Crimson requiring its candidates to kiss all Radcliffe girls coming out of Fogg Art Museum...
...President Roosevelt, CAB, the Army, Navy and State Department. But last year a $500,000 mail subsidy needed to start the flights was refused by both Senate and House appropriations committees. Last week Export again drew an emphatic thumbs down from the House committee. Since the company now must wait for Congress' next budget bill to try again, and since every defeat makes a reversal less probable, it looked as if the transatlantic fight between Export and powerful, lobby-wise Pan Am had ended...