Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record load of 428 million gallons a day-30 million gallons more than last year's consumption for the same period. Taps gurgled and ran dry in thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...
With the College tapering off to prewar normalcy, and most of the Varsity coaches heading for that favorite fishing retreat, Freshman athletes will have to wait until the fall before they can win a letter. Competition during the next two months will be strictly informal...
...University's oldest graduation week ceremonies, Dean Sperry used Ecclesiastes XI: 4, 6 as the text for sermon, in which he counselled the Seniors that, in the face of "uncertain her" today, if they wait for "settled her" before they begin to live, they never have lived...
...Eugene Millikin, Finance Committee Chairman, was unimpressed. According to his estimates, enactment of the tax-cut bill will still leave a surplus of over $5 billion next year-provided that Congress cut the budget by $4½ billion, as pledged by the Senate. So the Senate wouldn't wait for George. On a straight party vote the motion was defeated...
...intimates in his soldier's way last week that the menace to Greece and Turkey was pretty much like the Battle of the Bulge. You had to rush up reinforcements (in this case $400 million) "to straighten the line, but you didn't sit down thereafter and wait for another bulge to happen. George Marshall was trying, like a good campaigner, to get the initiative...