Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discoverer of the comet, possibly an observer on a ship at sea, is still unknown. When this yet unnamed comet leaves our hemisphere, it's a 75-year wait before another comet circles...
...grid Ksantel ong ong . . . What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...
...Direct hit, he said to himself, and though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that's what these days probably were. What did it matter; they'd be all over soon, and he'd have to start looking around for something...
Then Schuman buckled down to work out something really stiff. At 10 a.m. last Saturday he bustled into the Assembly carrying a black briefcase. What was in it? someone asked. Said M. Schuman: "Vous verrez ce que vous verrez" (wait and see). What the Assembly saw amazed it; nothing so strong had been expected. What the Communists saw goaded them to a maniac pitch of fury...
...under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which the Communists hold, and the appointed mayors of Harbin and Soviet Dairen are also stalled in Mukden. Some talked about "the good old days" from 1932 to '45 under the Japanese...