Word: delay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient black says "Freedom Now"; the white says "Later." A few short years ago there was only one timetable - and it said "Never." For a thoughtful look at the timetable change...
...handy book, the best short compendium on the subject to be found anywhere. Carey regards punctuation as "governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste," and its first essential as conveying the meaning "to the reader's mind, through his eye, with the least possible delay and without any ambiguity." He feels that "the best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious...
Seagull Hash. Most of the troubles have been minor-but bothersome. A major cause of delayed flights for both American Airlines and Pan American Airways is the autopilot system, which temperamentally gets out of kilter with the least flaw in a soldered wire, a spring or a clip. The airlines have had to delay flights because of trouble with the water-injection system used to boost takeoffs, bugs in the air-conditioning and pressurization system, even burnt-out lights over the passenger seats. On one occasion an American jet sat on the ground for several hours waiting for a replacement...
...traffic areas before getting on course; many pilots have to make six changes of heading before getting their route-and then the altitude or route is often changed from the one originally cleared. American Airlines found that 30% of its flights in the first two months of operation were delayed more than ten minutes and 20% more than 20 minutes by such requirements. But the jets have had less trouble than anyone expected at the tricky job of integrating with prop-plane patterns. And even the routing problem may soon be solved: the Federal Aviation Agency is working on better...
Defending champion Dell of Yale failed to show up for his first singles match Friday. He wired that he had overslept and would be two hours late, but the tournament committee decided they could not delay the match that long, and Dell was declared in default...