Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips asserted that, although more bolts that rivets would have to be used to hold the building together, there will be no delay and no appreciable increase in the cost of construction...
George Marshall's speech before the U.N. delegates of 55 nations carried his nation into a new projection of foreign policy. It was of a piece with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan in that it was coldly directed against Russia's power, obstructionism and delay. What Marshall said was simply this: after two years of operation, U.N., because of Russia's paralyzing use of the veto power, is a complete sham. Now the U.S., by an appeal to the world's conscience and to the world's small powers, is going...
...powers on the Security Council; it might facilitate action. In effect, Marshall had rallied the little powers, which have hitherto paced the corridors as restless exiles from the U.N.'s big-power politics, squarely behind the aim of peace and against Russia's tactics of disruption and delay. Had Russian vetoes kept the Security Council from protecting Greece from Communists to the north? Then, said Marshall, let the Assembly pass its own judgment on the Greek question. The U.S., he left no doubt, would be ready to act on Assembly decisions...
...Delay at Schoenhof's Foreign Book shop was shorter, amounting to no more than ten or fifteen minutes, while second-hand stores were packed with students...
Margaret Truman, after nerve-racking delay (due to more pressing union business), was accepted as a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Musical Artists...