Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, it looked as if the only way to get to Suchow was on foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they...
...were attracted, he said, "by the very vigor of the project." They felt "a great intellectual concern-an almost Christian concern-for the underprivileged, for economic crises, for the problem of war. They say: 'What shall I do?' At that crossroad the evil thing, Communism, lies in wait with a simple answer...
...Wait & See. At week's end an uneasy calm settled over the invaded area. The government was moving its hastily reorganized forces northward but avoiding battle. Presumably Calderon (and friend Tacho) hoped for an anti-Figueres uprising within Costa Rica. Meanwhile they awaited international reaction to their adventure...
Harvard men who still have a shipment of dirty socks to mail home are in for at least a half-hour wait at the Cambridge post office...
...year, the Council has been considering some sort of concrete recommendation, hoping to apply it to the '52 Redbook. But the investigation has delayed so long that the '52 Redbook has been given the go-ahead, and any change in policy will have to wait another year. The Council now expects its report sometime next April. Dean Leighton, while supporting the Redbook, now indicates that he would be willing to consider a Council proposal to eliminate it. Under the circumstances, it seems only reasonable that the Council should recommend discontinuing the Redbook and consolidating freshman records into a more worthwhile...