Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refusing to compromise with Israel over the request for a five-day delay to prepare for the start of negotiations or clarify support for moving the talks to the Middle East in the near future, Bush suggests that the Israelis should prepare to be on the receiving end of greater pressure in the future...
...politician-charming and charismatic whenever it suits him. In comparison, the Ghost (Miguel Perez) is presented as a frightening imposition on poor Hamlet's time, rather than an inspiration to avenge. Claudius' appealing grace undermines the Ghost's severe dignity, and, as a result, the audience understands Hamlet's delay in killing his uncle...
Knox called Roosevelt, and Roosevelt called Hull, who was supposed to meet Nomura and Kurusu at 1 p.m. But the envoys had trouble getting the message from Tokyo decoded and retyped and asked for a delay, so it was 2:05 before they seated themselves, all unknowing, in Hull's antechamber. Hull, who had already read their message and knew about the raid on Pearl Harbor as well, made a pretense of reading the document, then lashed out at the luckless envoys. "In all my 50 years of public service," he declared, "I have never seen a document that...
...promises from Washington were never kept. Roosevelt and Stimson had already told Churchill in private that the Philippines couldn't be saved. The defenders of Bataan had no real purpose except to delay the Japanese victory. Wrote Stimson in his diary: "There are times when men have...
Carliner said he believes the delay was a result of party rivalries. "It is conceivable the Democrats wanted to get back at President Bush for pushing the capital gains tax," he said...