Word: deferring
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...perpetual tension between the black and white races in South Africa are limited the nation's novelists to a consideration of the color problem, forcing them to defer answering the basic question, "what is life?" a South African novelist declared last night...
...Korean war. The loan will raise China's contribution to the North Korean economy to around $500 million v. $750 million from Russia. Last week Moscow riposted with an announcement that the Soviet Union has waived repayment by North Korea of one $190 million Russian loan, agreed to defer repayment of an-other $35 million...
Many of the one-sentence characterizations offered for comment have aroused considerable interest. Miss Long said that they were based on a pilot study done last spring. Some of the more entrancing ones are "Radcliffe girls are pushy, and do not defer to men," "Radcliffe girls are unchaste," "Radcliffe girls are neurotic and maladjusted," and perhaps most intriguing, "Radcliffe girls sleep around, but only with Harvard men who are in Group...
...Since our desire is not briefly to defer our own destruction, but to work for an enobled human life, we call for a deep-rooted, immediate and total break with the policy of military deterrence. We must rennounce uncomprimisingly the organization for mass violence as a final arbiter of international conflict. The continued existence of these devices for killing populations leaves us exposed to the danger that they will be used in time of crisis regardless of previous resolve; therefore we must prevent their continued manufacture and posession. We know full well that the possible consequences of such radical action...
...cash, he allowed Louis XIV to bribe him, but contrived to give little value for money. In 1670 Louis agreed to pay Charles ?160,000 to become a Catholic, but-knowing well that open conversion would cause civil war and wreck an Anglo-French alliance-he asked Charles to defer his avowal until "the state of his country's affairs" permitted. While Louis simmered, Charles deferred it for 15 years, until he was on his deathbed...