Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we have all enjoyed guessing, are you going to tell us or do we have to wait for your quarterly quiz? The question is, did Marshall tell Chiang of his new appointment [TIME, Jan. 20, p. 21], or was Ambassador Stuart the only one who knew...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
...Piazza's mood was bitter toward everything official in Italy. Told that the Italian Government would straighten out matters "tomorrow," the demonstrators cried: "Why not today? Why must we always wait for a tomorrow...
...fact that the Tories had nothing to offer in The Crisis was evidence enough. The fact that Britons did not expect them to have anything to offer is more significant. When Tory Members of Parliament were asked what they proposed to do, the best answer was: "Wait until the people get their senses back." A factor of the Tory futility is that, to all effects, the Party is Winston Churchill-and last week he fiddled with tactics while the United Kingdom froze. If, as many Conservatives say, he is convinced that the people will summon him to power again...
...stopped at a desolate schoolhouse where he found a "female ancient mariner with watery eyes" teaching 34 pupils. The old woman invited him to listen to a civics class. Wrote Fine: "She began a discussion of good & bad laws, complaining that this country is ruled by wicked men. 'Wait till the women get the right to vote!' she exclaimed in a seeming burst of inspiration. 'Some day they will, and then our laws will be better...