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They say in total truth: "We aren't going anywhere," and ask why, then, they must patrol and probe and await the sniper's bullet or the shell that may find them on their hills, and why they must be there at all. They do not yearn to leap from their lines and drive across the snow-whitened enemy hills. Far from it. But they do yearn for an end of this war and they would rather fight to end it than await an ending that never comes...
...rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards and lashes them to the mast. But Blackbeard's dark deeds finally catch up with him when his own men, led by First Mate William Bendix, bury him up to his neck in the sand and leave him to await the incoming tide (in real life, Blackbeard was shot by a British lieutenant on the high seas...
Confident that West Germany had thereby made its "political decision" to rearm and join the Western Allies, Chancellor Adenauer sat back confidently to await what he assumed would be an equally approving court decision...
...number of reasons for this present themselves. Perhaps as many will claim, city folk were surfeited with the Democrats on general principle. Perhaps they were ired over what Republicans clangorously call Bungles, or over corruption, or inflation, or Reds in Government. While cautioning you to await the large studies of this year's vote which will soon be under way, we hazard a guess. We fear that the defection of the cities is the work of the Reds in Government issue and its extrapolators, the work of men who, were it not for the atmosphere of panic that inevitably attends...
...police headquarters, Kellermar "confessed" that he was "David Crandall' and had been out with friends looking for girls, but had been deserted and needed money to get back to New York. Since he could not produce bail, he was tossed into the county jail in Riverhead to await trial in jail, he found just what he was looking for. Young first offenders, as he wrote last week, were locked up in filthy, verminous cells with second and third offenders, dope addicts and sexual degenerates. One aged psychopath, who screamed all night, four days after his release committed suicide...