Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere of popular confusion and political outcry that sorely tested even his engineer's vocational optimism. The British had taken exception to his statements that as a U.N. official he was only Nasser's guest in Egypt, and had accused him of letting the Egyptians delay the clearance job. The Egyptians had displayed all the sensitivities of the injured and assaulted, had insisted on accepting the benefactions of their U.N. rescuers on their own terms...
...repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months ago Hindu Ambedkar renounced his caste-perpetuating religion, claimed it stood for "inequality and oppression," led 300,000 followers in a mass conversion to Buddhism...
There are a few, however, who cannot delay making their peace with life until a more convenient time. They seek immediate resolutions, attempting to evolve a synthesis of academic skepticism and personal insignificance, an ideology for those of little faith. Such a system is, of course, not readily accessible, the evolution or comprehension of a catholic system having been one of the notorious problems of the last few centuries. The existence of any belief seems at the moment almost inevitably contingent upon some sort of parochialism, temporal, cultural, or temperamental. But a secondary difficulty, at least among students in Eastern...
...also very possible that the plan may be delayed in either one of the many groups, and delay its approval by the Faculty until February--a lapse of over two months from its original conception...
...will probably be put off another year, to 1958. Cut is scheduled next April 1 in corporate levies (from 52% to 47%), plus excise-tax reduction for liquor, cigarettes, autos, auto parts. But Treasury Department estimates slash would cost Government about $3 billion, wants another twelve-month delay...