Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single record was cut thereafter by any one of the 216,000 members of Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians for any one of the 771 U.S. recording and transcription companies. Tired but outwardly happy, the musicians sat back to wait for Jimmy's next move. Nobody believed Jimmy's refrain, but everybody knew that some time would elapse before he stopped chanting...
...Dick. In this first try at acting he was so terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...
...decision ended the Harvard Youth for Democracy's 90-day wait for a definite faculty ruling and drew an immediate statement from Geoffrey W. White '48, editor of the magazine, to the effect that an appeal, presumably to Provost Buck as Dean of the Faculty, would be made within the next week...
Such occurrences, not always with so happy an ending, happen daily. Meanwhile, Palestine's people live on edge, wait for the next blow from either side. This year Jews and Arabs will stay inside their respective fortified areas as the rest of the world celebrates the 1947 anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Peace. The bright star which guided the Wise Men to the Manger will probably be outshone by the Very lights which British troops in Jerusalem's Old City send up through the long hours of night to spot rooftop snipers...
...Jouhaux was sad. He had devoted 38 years of his life to building up the C.G.T. He wanted the Force Ouvrière rebels to wait until the September union elections, when he thought control of the C.G.T. could be wrested from the Reds. When he ended his speech a few hands clapped out of respect for the Old Man. But a speaker who followed him and echoed his sentiments got boos and catcalls. At 11 p.m. Jouhaux shuffled wearily from the hall...