Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he's on camera"). Not only did his presence once prompt ex-King Farouk to stalk out of the Rome zoo, but his TV appearances between films of Queen Elizabeth's coronation on U.S. channels set British jaws against the advent of commercial TV, helped delay it by two years...
...Judiciary Committee. Eastland in turn refered them to the sub-committee on civil rights, but increased that group's membership from three to seven, adding four Senators whose attitude towards such legislation ranges from lukewarm to antagonistic. That sub-committee, in turn, gives every indication of intending to delay action on the bills as long as possible...
...Smiths of the 1956 campaign, that was long overdue. In an other sense, however, it was now for the House and Senate to relate the tone and the length of the debate to the critical condition, to bear in mind especially that the Communists will interpret undue delay in approving the bulk of the Eisenhower plan to mean that the U.S. is deeply divided about the wisdom of opposing Communism with both force and dollars in the Middle East...
...Such marriage counseling often digs cruelly, but always humanely. One day a chaplain advised delay when he found out that the airman was deep in debt (which the British girl had not known). Another chaplain, after hearing the story of a well-off British girl who wanted to marry an airman with a grade-school education and go home with him to a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, also recommended delay. Still another chaplain tried to discourage the marriage of a Southern Negro to a British white girl, even to the point of going to the girl's parents...
...Foreign Minister Charles Malik said in Paris that Nasser insists "that no Suez settlement is possible as long as Israel does not withdraw its troops behind the 1949 armistice lines." Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser...