Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Nazi Admiral Graf Spee limped into Montevideo harbor last week to bury its dead, patch up, await orders, NBC-RCA's representative there, Bill Clark, signed up his friend Jimmy Bowen to keep watch on her. Jimmy, who had once broadcast a Montevideo opera opening for NBC, found himself with a microphone, headphones, and the job of periodically reporting the comings & goings of the Spec's officers, the feverish activities of her men, the vague rumors that drifted down to the docks...
...contrary we accept the Reich's offer of collaboration, the latter will not hesitate to crush Poland; England and France will be thereupon drawn fatally into war. There will result a thorough destruction of Western Europe, and remaining outside the conflict we can advantageously await our hour...
...give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will combine for the immense task that will await...
...Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...
...stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...