Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fall, Philip spent several weeks with the Royal Family at Balmoral. By the time Philip's visit was over, Elizabeth's mind was made up, and she told her father all about it. As fathers the world over are prone to do, George suggested that she wait a while. The London papers, meanwhile, had started a flurry of speculation. The Palace promptly issued a denial of any engagement, but in essence the denial said only...
Life in a Tree. Frantic tenants stormed the rent-control offices. After three boiling days, the Los Angeles acting area director wearily closed his desk for the weekend with a final word of advice: "Don't move. Stay where you are. Wait until your landlord takes your case to court before you obey any eviction notice...
...steel prices would probably wait on examination of the second quarter's balance sheet. But steelmen could already figure their increased costs. Two tons of coal are needed to produce a ton of steel. Steelmen talked frankly of steel price rises of between $1 and $2 a ton. Big Steel had loaded another high-price rocket...
...After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...
William Hermanns, professor of modern languages at San Jose College, California, and Donald V. McGranahan, lecturer on social psychology at Harvard, stated that the Germans were trying to play the Russians against the United States and that real progress in German reorientation would have to wait until East-West differences were resolved...