Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall gave a news conference a paraphrase of the Russian note which made no mention of delay...
...major problem of U.S.diplomacy is Russia's defensive silence, equivocation and niggling delay. Last week Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Arthur Vandenberg discussed a prime example: Russia's refusal even to answer U.S. notes suggesting a Lend-Lease settlement...
True partition, with fixed boundaries and complete autonomy, still seems the one best plan, imperfect as it may be. The alternatives are further delay, suffering, and perhaps, bloodshed. Britain would be rid of Palestine, which up to now it has been trying to drop with well glued fingers, at the same time retaining a military base. The Jews would find the area of their future expansion defined and limited, but they would have a haven and a future. And the Arabs, while renouncing claim to a sizable area of the Holy Land, would unquestionably be able to negotiate a suitable...
...year before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese completed the great Canton-Hankow Railway, linking South and Middle China-1,095 kilometers of arterial steel. To delay the Japanese advance, China's defenders wrecked much of the precious railroad. They dynamited one or two major bridges, collapsed five tunnels by exploding TNT-laden trains inside them, sent 95% of the line's equipment rolling off into the Kweichow gorges, where it still rusts. The Japanese never fully repaired this damage, never ran a train between Canton and Hankow...
Five years ago, selecting titles at the last minute could be passed off as a harmless eccentricity. At the most, it would merely delay books for the length of time it took mail from Cambridge to reach the publisher. This happy situation no longer holds true. Dilatory professors may not only hold up the student unduly, since stocks are not complete, but may keep him from getting the text at all. There is no need for this reluctance in picking out texts now, nor has there ever been an entirely adequate one. Some courses have had their February lists...