[Ads-l] Hurry up and wait.

[Charles C Doyle]

The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs shows this saying from 1930.

--Charlie
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1940 _Daily Nonpareil_ (Council  Bluffs, Ia.) (May 22)  1: "Horrors of War"
in Louisiana [Maneuvers]. 'Ours is the blitzkrieg outfit, so we do a lot of
rushing around, but most of the time we hurry up and wait.'"

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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