Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each dormitory has a representative on the committee, which meets a with Miss Russ and Emily B. Lacey. Dean of Residence, to discuss dietary suggestions and unpopular meals. Miss Ruse said that there would be a delay in action on many other companies...
...every man, woman and child that may come before them and to preserve individual freedom against any aggression of government; judges with the humility born of wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday world from any unnecessary delay-judges with all these attributes are not easy to find, but which of these traits dare we eliminate if we are to hope to attain evenhanded justice...
Mismanagement, or rather nonmanagement, of the states' judicial systems is the main reason for delay in the courts. In Queens County, N.Y., for example, it now takes 49 months for a jury case to come to trial in the state courts. Justice so long delayed can mean justice denied, as litigants die and witnesses disappear...
...terror such as we have seen abroad . . . are no more dangerous to the country at large than the judges [and lawyers], many of them amiable gentlemen, who oppose either openly or covertly every change in procedural law and administration that would serve to eliminate technicalities, surprise, and undue delay in the law simply because they would be called upon to learn new rules of procedure or new and more effective methods of work...
Spoiled Campaign. The day after Malenkov fell, Britain's Nye Bevan made an uncharacteristically dispirited defense of his attempt to delay German rearmament and was defeated in a Laborite caucus by a decisive 23 votes. In Wrest Germany, where Konrad Adenauer had been forced to take to the hustings to argue for rearmament, the Chancellor now felt reassured. "The Russians should have waited just one more month," said Adenauer, "then they would not have spoiled the Socialist campaign so completely...