Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the interview I couldn't wait to get out of town. I returned to my hotel and, inasmuch as it was my birthday, ate some birthday cake. The (next morning, with my three colleagues, I boarded the Buenos Aires plane and sat there, feeling most uncomfortable, with a big, fat manila envelope full of opposition documents among my possessions. Neither the police nor the customs officials molested me, however, and when the big seaplane took off from the Parana river it was too late for anyone to do anything about...
...what had been said often before. But the words had a new and bolder meaning, and the people cheered. Said Ernst Reuter simply: "He who surrenders Berlin surrenders a world, surrenders himself." Gustav Pietch, railroad labor leader, bellowed hoarsely: "The blockade has failed, and now the Communists can only wait for the help of General Hunger and Generalissimo-" (here he paused long enough for the crowd to expect to hear "Stalin") "-Winter." Pietch concluded: "Again they will fail!" And the crowd roared its assent...
When the French government gave him 24 hours to get out of the country, Garry took sanctuary on the steps of the U.N. administration building. There, sunning himself on territory that is technically international property, he relaxed and prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for the vigil: a knapsack, a bedroll, a portfolio, a portable typewriter, a copy of The Fountainhead, the United Nations World, and TIME. Said Crusader Davis: "If the U.N. can't establish the status of one person, it's plain to see that they cannot...
...electoral results became known, local Demo-Christians told them of the government's financial difficulties and the need for patience, so the people of Arsoli modified their request. Instead of begging for a pump which would cost 12 million lire (about $21,000), they declared themselves ready to wait, so as not to throw an excessive financial burden on the government...
...necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure at Pearl Harbor was that he and his staff thought the enemy would stick to what the Americans...