Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candy bars. He had bought twelve Hershey's and twelve Oh Henrys at Casper and had 20 of them left. He also had three packages of cigarettes, and a cigarette lighter. He built a fire, cut the brown cowboy boot off his swollen ankle, and leaned back to wait for a rescue party...
...from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
Then you can board a West Point bus in the Greyhound terminal on Forty- Fourth st, at 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., or 12:15 p.m. tomorrow. Or you can wait until 2:30 a.m. tomorrow morning before leaving Boston, sit up all night, and connect with the 11:15 a.m. bus from New York...
...register its reactions to the plaque proposal. This group consists of Harvard's 90,000 alumni, the men who will have to pay for this memorial. The alumni directors might solicit correspondence, they might poll alumni, or they might employ some other process. In any case they should wait well beyond tomorrow before committing Harvard to the Saltonstall Committee's plan for a plaque...
Great Expectations. In Queens County, N.Y., Cabdriver John Wagner raced Passenger Andrew Mackey to the courthouse, was told to wait, an hour later inquired within and found that his fare had been sentenced to six months...