Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
...Department of Health. Education and Welfare, President Eisenhower had picked Nelson Rockefeller. Under Secretary in the Department and a presidential troubleshooter, Rockefeller drafted a formal progress report on the vaccine situation, which Ike released last week. Full of the obvious lessons from the vaccine mix-up ("From the delay science has gained new knowledge, new safeguards"), the report carried one bit of near-news: enough vaccine to complete the two free shots for the first-and second-graders, run by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, "should be released within 60 days." That would mean that the shots would...
...Irving P. Krick (then Major Krick), enlisted men plotted worldwide weather maps, and Krick and his forecasters endeavored to predict weather as far ahead as 30 days . . . One day, badgered (via Teletype) by Washington HQ for an overdue forecast, Krick could not get them to understand that the delay was caused by missing or unavailable data. Finally he blew up and roared, "What the hell do they think I use, tea leaves...
Rosen is cautiously hopeful about the future of rocketry and space flight, but he has no illusions. His book makes clear that each advance in design introduces new opportunities for delay and disaster...
...Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways," he next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes in the series. The third set on the Church Fathers, after a seven-year delay for revision, is now at the press, while the material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room. This series, together with his project of publishing Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle in three languages (which should fill a hundred volumes when...