Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indignant about. In the last 100 years, they had emancipated themselves from domestic tyranny, political and economic discrimination, laced-up corsets and knee-length bloomers. Man had grudgingly changed his fuddy-duddy notions of what was proper for a lady, had allowed her to do his typing, wait on him in restaurants, manage his budget, represent him in Congress, and stand on her own feet in streetcars...
...mood) had told the Premier simply: "You have until March 15, at the very latest, to lower prices 10%." Beyond that date, no labor union could promise to hold down the workers' dissatisfaction. In fact, the Communist-led C.G.T. (biggest federation of French unions) was unwilling to wait that long. The Communists last week demanded immediate wage boosts which they knew the government could not grant...
...love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien; when he tried to enlist in the French army he was rejected. In the end he marched off to a French concentration camp for aliens, while Corinne settled down to wait...
Automatic Jim Brieske, who executed seven perfect points after touchdown in that game, claimed today that Valpey had no small part in the West Coast invasion. "Valpey had Southern Cal so well scouted that we just had to wait for them to run into us," Brieske said...
...those 40 years, Principal Walton has kept his school rigorously faithful to Quakerism. He himself lives so strictly and simply that even greying alumni are embarrassed to smoke in front of him. His 421 students-about half boys and half girls-do their own chores, wait on table, mow lawns, and clerk in the school store. For eight weeks each year, in place of English classes, they get special religious instruction: a study of ancient religions, selections from the Old Testament, the life and teaching of Jesus, the history and teachings of Quakerism...