Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...registrant objects to his classification, he can appeal to regional boards (one for every 600,000 population). In theory, he can even appeal to the President. But the Army does not propose to let appeals and delays gum up the draft ("War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals. . . ."). In effect, the word of regional appeal boards will be final...
...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...
Mothers Have to Wait...
Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the regisration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the east end of the Hall and told to wait...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...