Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment of Leventhal as representative last May was the Student Council's answer to the invariable delay and general confusion which has plagued Redbooks in the past...
...Paris, Russia refused to participate in Secretary of State George Marshall's plan for the revival of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Russia had withdrawn into a new kind of isolation. The U.S. opportunity was to set Western Europe back on its economic feet, unhampered by Russian participation, bickering, delay and vetoes...
...steelmen, the big coal operators, John Lewis. They called the whole contract a "conspiracy" between Big Labor and Big Business, callously contrived to squeeze out the small owners. The anxiety of the big operators over possible antitrust suits had been, in fact, one of the main causes of delay in negotiations...
...dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...
...mules, signed contracts to buy 12,000 more. But when they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have to consult with Mexican officials over what it considered exorbitant prices. Cussing the delay, which would cost them 50? a mule a day for feed, most of the dealers went home to await further word...