Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack. . . ." Thus Franklin Roosevelt said that...
Like the newspaper series from which it was compiled, Ingersoll's book shoots most of its news bolt in the beginning. Its best quality is its wide-eyed observation of ordinary details: how it feels to wait in line for a food-rations book, how London's balloon barrage looks from the ground (". . . all the balloons point in the same direction, as cows do in a field on a windy...
...feet and then buy shoes of only that one size for the Army." Under the bill, any citizen substantially affected and displeased by a ruling "has everything to gain and nothing to lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved and sue in some other court. A series of individuals might sue again & again over the same rule. An epidemic in Federal territory could not be quarantined, forest fires on the public domain might not be fought, without public hearings and advance notice; and endless quagmires...
Walter Reuther said: "Normal methods can build all the planes we need-if we can wait until 1942 and 1943 to get them. But the need for planes is immediate and terrifying. We dare not invite the disaster which may come with further delay...
...barkeep. Joe Madden, onetime lightweight, is probably the only ex-pug who can trace his clicking cash register to his ability to write rather than fight. One night last week 500 of Madden's loyal customers jammed his Manhattan-cafe. Tennist Alice Marble sang, Sportswriter Richards Vidmer helped wait on table. They rang up $1,500 in his cash register-not for Joe Madden but for New York City's needy kids...