Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After working a five-day week on the capitalist Times, Glaser found that Worker workers were laboring six days, so he ordered a five-day week. Eisler vetoed the order. "He told me," explained Glaser, "that we couldn't delay the revolution for a day." It was Eisler who also ran the paper's editorial policy. Once the foreign editor, then Harry Cannes, turned in a story that revolution was imminent in France. "I hadn't heard of it," said Glaser, "and I asked Cannes where it came from...
...delay in delivery of steel has prevented installation of seats in the Donald C. Watson Rink, and local building inspectors have therefore limited the number of spectators...
...best friends were shocked, especially in the U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New York, speaking to 18,000 people at an Israeli bond-drive meeting in Madison Square Garden, warned Israel to "show restraint." The New York Times called the border raid "deplorable." The incident appeared likely to delay, if not to block, a favorable reply to Israel's request for U.S. arms to match Communist shipments to Egypt...
...need to distribute sound so that everybody can hear equally well and without delay. Sound weakens as it reaches the rear of a hall, so it must be made denser by reflection from hard flat surfaces. In Kresge, that job is done by hard-surfaced "clouds" hung from the ceiling...
...swim, team we wish a fifty-yard pool, and an electrical bulwark like Yale's seems only right. After a decade of delay, it would also be nice if the HAA brought the gallery of team portraits up to date. (That 's what those empty wood frames at the end of the pool...