Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of actual military intervention by U.S. forces in China, there was probably nothing the nation could do for the moment but wait and hope. Said the Washington official: "I have every sympathy for China, and God knows I'd like to see Communism rooted off the face of the earth. But what can we do at an hour like this? We couldn't even get anything started before this battle will be brought to a melancholy or a successful conclusion...
...huffed a police sergeant at the palace gates, "there's nothing to see 'ere. Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
Quiet, Please. That night none of the royal family bothered to dress for dinner. They all ate a cold snack in the palace sitting room, and during the long wait that followed, Philip paced up & down in an old pair of flannels and tieless shirt...
Miss Braverman pointed out that students felt a professor could just as easily send an assistant to explain the examination, or that they could go on to the next questions and wait for the professor to arrive...
...completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...