Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, after eight footloose months of going around together, Tyrone Power and Linda Christian decided to postpone their wedding until Tyrone finished his location work on a new movie. Announced reason for the delay: "They will have more time for their honeymoon when the studio work is over...
John Barrymore Jr., 16, continued on his way to Los Angeles after a slight delay at La Guardia Airport. Stepfather Dr. John Vruwink, in the dark himself, had asked police to find out whither John was bound. Police picked him out by the profile...
...free access thereto as a matter of established right ... It will not be induced by threats, pressures or other actions to abandon these rights . . . The U.S. Government is therefore obliged to insist that . . . traffic between the Western zones and Berlin be fully restored. There can be no question of delay...
There was a short delay. An angry Sigler, in shirtsleeves and plastic suspenders, got up to deny the truth of the Michigan rumor. Michigan had not deserted Vandenberg, he said. The voting began. The score on the first ballot: Dewey, 434; Taft, 224; Stassen, 157; Vandenberg, 62; Warren, 59. Dewey had not made it. Bingo...
...sergeant called for a lieutenant. The lieutenant called a colonel. The colonel recognized the limousine's passenger as Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky, Soviet commander in chief in Germany. After what had been almost an hour's delay, the marshal drove off, well within the speed limit. U.S. General Lucius Clay sent apologies. But the G.I.s who had slowed the speeder down were reported to be not remorseful...