Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Declined to authorize entrance of a third-term slate of delegates in the Ohio primary next May 14. (Candidates ordinarily file by Feb. 1, may wait till mid-March.) To some, this indicated he will not declare his intentions until convention time...
...week after Broun died, the Executive Board sent out a letter urging Guild locals not to make nominations for a new president, to wait instead until next summer's national convention. Local officials looked up the Guild constitution, saw that the Board's proposal was unconstitutional...
...tremendous importance of controlling yourself at your age and wait until you are old enough to choose a good girl for a wife? You have no right to play with girls who know no better than you. You can be a butterfly sucking every attractive flower. You can even brag to your friends about the conquests you have made. You are not a hero. You have taken advantage of the weakness of womanhood to satisfy your baser nature. There is nothing heroic about that...
Plaster has one great disadvantage: "it prevents examination of the wound at any given moment. Fortunately this examination is seldom necessary. When there is doubt about the vitality of the tissues that remain after injury ... it is essential to wait two or three days before putting on plaster." In that case, the wound should be left open to view, the limb strung up on special wires for immobilization. If the limb is "dying," it must be amputated. If the circulation speeds up within a few days, a cast...
...great anomaly of 1939 was that in a year of unprecedented preparedness, Franklin Roosevelt chose to get along first with an ailing, aging Secretary of the Navy, and then with none at all after old Claude Swanson died last July. Assistant Secretary Charles Edison eased along as Acting Secretary, waited hopefully for the full title. The President let him wait, meantime let Washington gossips go to the lengths of rumoring that Republican Frank Knox would get the call in the interests of National Unity...