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Word: delay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sleep On It" is the procrastinator's favorite. Rhythmic, joyous, easy to listen or dance to, the song has a soothing sound that invites you to delay whatever you should be doing...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Help From Her Friends | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, in conjunction with other third world campus organizations, last spring held several rallies and demonstrations to protest Harvard's links to South Africa." Sparked by frustration over the Corporation's delay in releasing its report, the demonstrators confronted president Bok last April 24, preventing him from entering Mass Hall...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Steiner, Masters Discuss South Africa | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...narrow Burgundy slope that produces some of the world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks and let the grapes grow plump and sweet. Louis Latour, head of the Burgundy Producers' Association, predicts that 1978, while a small harvest, will be remembered as a great year for Burgundies, "perhaps the best since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Burgundy Boom | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...According to the advertisement, "Because The Encare Oval is inserted in advance, it won't iterrupt lovemaking." We feel that the mandatory 10 minutes delay following insertion before intercourse may be considered an interruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware of Oval | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...then, the delay? It was Anwar Sadat, with U.S. backing, who balked this time. The text did not include a timetable for concluding negotiations for Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, and it was this timetable that lay at the heart of Sadat's proposals for "linkage" between a treaty and the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. Nor did the document take into account Sadat's new suggestion that in devising the plan for Palestinian autonomy, the negotiators should concentrate first on Gaza, then turn later to the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Slouching Toward Oslo | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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