Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ratio of ten acres per head of cattle. Reformer Cárdenas himself said it should never be divided, and even President Ruiz Cortines did not plan to expropriate. He negotiated first to buy the ranch for $2,160,000. But when hassles among the Greene heirs threatened to delay the closing for years, the President dispatched the Agriculture Minister with an expropriation decree and ended the matter with a few legalisms...
Northeast Airlines Flight 258 left New York's La Guardia Airport at 10:30 p.m., its 31 passengers chafing at the two-hour delay already caused by lowering weather. Along with the usual vacationers were passengers who had locked up their office desks for the weekend, eaten hasty meals, packed their bags and hurried to make Flight 258 at its scheduled time. They had little time for delay; they were weekend aerial commuters, a modern phenomenon, traveling regularly from their workweek jobs in New York to their New England summer homes. Flight 258 wheeled northeasterly from La Guardia, headed...
...gravelly tones Gromyko ran through a predictable catalogue of invective-"oil, oil and oil again; that was the thing which was tempting the monopolies of the U.S. and the United Kingdom"-and introduced a resolution demanding that the U.S. and Britain withdraw their troops from Lebanon and Jordan "without delay." But Gromyko closed on what from him-or any other Russian-was a surprisingly conciliatory note. Russia, he insisted, was less interested in getting her own resolution passed than in finding "a mutually acceptable formula." Said he: "Even today, if you please-I repeat, even today-we are prepared...
...churches got the news that they would be used only to glorify God. In a decision that Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. called the "epitome of judicial statesmanship," Federal Judge Hutcheson-who was born in black-belt Mecklenburg County 64 years ago-granted the board a delay not of five but of seven years...
Little Rock, in almost any case, will be a focus of struggle. If the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Federal Judge Harry Lemley's 2½-year delay in integration (TIME, July 14), the use of further legalized delay will apparently have to be overset or affirmed on further appeal to the Supreme Court. If no delay is permitted and Negro students are not Faubused into staying away from Central High School on registration day, there will almost certainly be more uproar...