Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of an unexplained delay, the 500 circular trays for the House dining halls will not come until early March. Student opinion will then decide whether more should be ordered...
After months of indecision, confusion and delay, the U.S. could sense a new feeling of quickening confidence and growing strength. There were still the usual creakings, complaints and outraged squawks from a many-jointed democracy trying to pull itself together for a united effort. But there could no longer be any doubt that the U.S. was settling down to the job of rearmament and making real progress...
...wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that he was above suspicion. President Truman referred the board's request to his new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights (TIME, Feb. 5), which was expected to approve the proposal without delay...
Doughfeet Right Behind. In early Korea actions, infantrymen were slow in following up artillery concentrations on enemy positions. Since artillery fire often does little more than stun a well-dug-in enemy, this delay lost them the advantages of artillery preparation. Eighth Army veterans now close in confidently behind the last bursts, calmly watch their own "outgoing" stuff land 100 yards away from them...
...know any more about the will now than we did a year ago when Bacon died," Kraetzer said. Taxes seem the major cause of the delay. "After Uncle Sam has his pick, we don't know whether there will be a nickel left...