Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways to enforce its ban on racially segregated schools. The simplest proposal came from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Its representatives wanted the court to set a firm deadline for complete integration, not later than September 1956. Lawyers for Southern and border states pleaded for delay. Delaware's Attorney General J. D. Craven resisted any definite deadline, saying: "We are a divided and a troubled people ... I think it would be presumptuous of me to name a date...
Previous graduates had not been allowed to delay their service more than one year except in special cases. The official reason for the change is to allow the newly commissioned graduates to have time to get more schooling or establish job seniority. However, a Defense Department official explained that cuts in military appropriations were an important factor in the decision and that fewer officers were actually needed under the current "more bang for a buck" philosophy...
...veto power, but by an unfavorable vote, or even by tacking on an amendment, it can send the accords back to the Assembly for another debate and another vote, a laborious business that might prove lethal. Faure was determined to get the accords approved "without amendment and without delay...
Last week there was the danger that France might delay the line's inauguration, arguing that it could not let Germans fly over the country prior to restoration of German sovereignty. But Lufthansa, with the U.S. and British authorities already on its side, counted on winning over the French as well. On April 1, said Lufthansa confidently, it would begin scheduled commercial flights inside West Germany, soon to be followed by regular flights to continental points, Britain and New York. Not long after, Lufthansa expects to be making four flights weekly to New York, two to Buenos Aires, three...
...speech fortnight ago, Foreign Minister Molotov prepared himself a retreat by distinguishing between the "ratification" and the "implementation" of German rearmament. Molotov apparently anticipated that the Paris accords could not be prevented from becoming law, had swallowed his defeat and had begun to prepare for the next effort to delay and demoralize...