Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From India, some 11,000 Mohammedans annually make the Haj. Last November India's Moslems sizzled when the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, Hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage. When the clamor continued, the Viceroy had to yield. This year Britain had learned her lesson. With the Axis driving for the Near East, British solicitude for India's Hajis seemed likely to last for the duration...
...believe the solution to this situation is to dispense with the election of a captain at the close of the season and to wait until late in the following season for an election; to have the coach appoint various individuals to set in that capacity during the early games and then, a week or perhaps two weeks prior to the Yale game, when the final make-up of the starting team is decided--strictly upon football merit and expediency--to have the players elect the man they then wish to honor and to have represent them
Next day, 21 local champions from eleven States lined up in the Keppy cornfield to wait the starting bomb in the husking contest. Favored by fence-row experts to win were Marion Link, Iowa State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...
This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...