Sentence:  In January , 1958 , the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law <WSD>was</WSD> ready to be submitted to the King , the rumors of election dates appeared once again , first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)