Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends in the Senate were in full cry. Their argument was a strong one: 1) the dispatch of tanks to Arab nations violates the declared U.S. policy of discouraging an arms race in the Middle East; 2) tanks for the Saudis put a strange light on U.S. delay in fulfilling Israel's four-month-old request to buy U.S. arms...
...answer is yes. His reasons for delay are partly financial; as an avowed candidate, Talmadge would have to meet expenses for setting up headquarters, hiring a secretarial staff-and buying his own television time. But Talmadge is in the race to the finish. During a recent speaking trip to South Carolina's Clemson Agricultural College, he confided to a small group: "I've been running for the last six months...
Macmillan also announced a $196 million cut in government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...
...four months aboard ship-loafed and chatted with the people of Aalesund, Norwegian authorities got two of the 15 skippers to admit they had been poaching, then fired off a strong protest to Moscow. Radio Moscow simply replied that Norway should release the Soviet fishing boats without delay...
...Haste in some directions, delay in others...