Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freighters and the luxury liner Lurline immobilized) and sugar planters (plagued by $61 million worth of raw sugar piled up in the islands). The strike had cost the islands an estimated $100 million loss in business and wages. Even with the settlement accepted by both sides, Hawaiians had to wait a while before normal shipping was resumed: the union insisted on clearing up some fringe issues before letting its stevedores go back to work...
...Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled. Nehru departed growling: "I must suffer for your inefficiency...
...Everybody's kicking--even the shop-owners," said another. "When we take a fare to the florist or the Trust Company, they want us to wait for them. If we do, we get tagged...
...Wait a second--don't fall--you'll crush my egg sandwich Mountaineers have a peculiar sense of humor...
...conference with the students on Friday, Whouley admitted that he had never employed non-Caucasians to wait on customers...