Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each man had to wait his turn to come in on the flush. Morey, Jim, and I each had our turn and got our birds. It was Stan's turn next, which turned out to be Red's. Remembering the bad time the birds had given him last year, and by studying each bird he ran to cover and by watching how each one acted, he doped out a way to catch the bird in flight. He also found that if he got in a certain position he could make that bird come out where he wanted...
...this will cost the U.S. taxpayer money-perhaps $150 million a year for four years. But the cost of doing nothing might be greater. In Korea, more sharply than in Germany, the U.S. system is pitted against Soviet totalitarianism. The Russian strategy is to sit it out and wait for U.S. impatience and renascent isolationism to call the G.I.s home. This would be the signal for a Communist underground in the south to emerge, combine with the Communist puppet government in the north and make all Korea into a Soviet satellite...
...Court. His guests do not see him until lunch, around 3. When lunch is over, he gives audiences to underlings, some of whom have to wait a week or more in uneasy luxury before seeing...
What pleased the President Lines even more was the number of customers who could hardly wait to climb aboard, see the wonders of 23 ports of call in 14 countries. There are already more than 1,000 paid-up reservations, and an estimated 10,000 passengers who want to make one or more legs of the cruise...
...reason for this odd situation in the otherwise booming automobile market was K-F's "newness," which was its biggest selling point at first. Buyers, seeing a chance to get tried-&-true cars after a wait of a few months, have become so wary of the new K-F that salesmen are chorusing: "The only thing new is the body, and it's not radical." But the biggest reason for lagging K-F sales is price. Competing automakers reckon that the Kaiser and Frazer should sell for around $1,600. But the Kaiser...