Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation General Assembly approved the delay by a vote of 37 to 10 with 34 abstentions...
Vietnamese intellectuals are aware that Confucianism's extreme reverence for the past helped delay the modernization of Asia until it was disastrously late, but Viet Nam's Confucian revivalists are not worried. The government has issued a Confucian handbook, and officials hold biweekly staff meetings at which government employees are drilled in the master's tenets. The Van-mieu "temple of literature"-with its array of tablets containing the life stories of Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound...
...proposals as written would delay suspension of nuclear tests until inspection posts had been agreed upon to check on disarmament...
Burning Issue. In Tokyo, apologizing for its delay in filling orders for musical cigarette lighters that play I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, the Japan Central Exchange Mail Order Service explained: "The factory burned down...
Most practical segregationists hope only to delay integration as long as possible, by legal tactics and by convincing Negroes that they are better off in their own schools. Faubus, on the contrary, played his entire hand in about three weeks and the result is not segregation...