Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When they just heard the name "Roosevelt" they cheered, screamed and yelled. Whoever took the report of the Convention doesn't like Roosevelt and I think that before election comes in November he will vote for Roosevelt. Roosevelt will get all his votes from Willkie yet. Just wait...
...voice quavered, alike from weariness and irritation. But in his grave, informed statement of U. S. peril in Hitler's world, Henry Stimson pulled no punches. House committee quibblers drove him to distraction, finally drove him to his best line of the day: "All this talk of wait, wait, wait, and we're confronted with an enemy who does not wait...
...year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic I would never have joined the Guard in the first...
...hands of Neville Chamberlain. Since the failure of Munich he has considered the war a personal conflict between himself and the German war lord who blighted his efforts for peace. Short of a political Putsch, which would probably cause dangerous disharmony at this time, Britain could only wait for him to change his mind...
...close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears the bells of his old church, knows that he must walk back to his pulpit once more. The subject of the last sermon which he delivers, while his enemies wait outside the church, is that he and others like him are waiting...