Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tories, who thought their chances would have been good in an early election, were impatient at the delay. But, said Churchill confidently, "we can certainly afford to wait...
...more difficult process for the birds comes up when the apparatus is set so that a delay between two pecks is necessary for a meal pay-off. He eventually gets wise to this when he discovers that turning around between the first and second peck, or walking across the eage and back, buys him a free meal...
This week the court granted Hiss three weeks' delay, but reserved judgment on the change of scene...
Washington University has been able to get another professor at the last minute, but department head Pleckmann says, "The delay put the department into a most difficult situation...
...delay which over a period of five months has prevented the university from getting a decision on Mr. Shortliffe's entry means exclusion became of negligence or because of evidence that is kept secret...