Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat Chamber of Deputies, had once again won a handy victory over the Communist-dominated opposition, most of whose efforts had been concentrated in trying to win a single district in Rangoon. When even that seat appeared to be going to the Freedom League, election commissioners cautiously decided to delay announcing the victory until a mob of students, waiting with weapons in hand outside the city hall, had been dispersed...
...convicted Nazi war criminal, nonetheless visited New York City last month. It was not his fault. Flying from London to the Bahamas for a vacation, Krupp was plunked down by surprise in the U.S. when his plane developed engine trouble. To ease its passengers' eight-hour delay, British Overseas Airways Corp. arranged a Manhattan sightseeing tour, dragged visaless Krupp along despite his spirited protests. After a gander at the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, the TIME & LIFE Building and Wall Street, reluctant Sightseer Krupp winged on to the Bahamas...
...Canada grappled with its problems, Frank McMahon was a quiet bystander. He was then deep in negotiations to build a 650-mile pipeline to take gas from his companies' fields in Alberta and British Columbia through "the Rocky Mountains into the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But Murchison's delay gave McMahon time to get his Northwest project well under...
Meanwhile, to delay the audience's realization of this main plot and to create the feeling of outer outer space, there are stereophonic sound effects to echo the dialogue. It usually sounds as though the man behind you is whistling in your ear. By far the most believable of unbelievable settings treats any physics major's imagination, and Robbie the Robot, who can produce 60 gallons of Kansas City Bourbon in one sitting, amuses everyone with his radio announcer's accent...
...original cancellation order and University delay in reaching a decision forced most Air Force sophomores and freshmen to drop the program or transfer to the Army...