Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flooded the cockpit and caught fire. Pride held his breath, so as not to inhale flames, and crashed in the Potomac River. His jaw and left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...
...budget message, the Administration has indicated that it will again delay action on one of the nation's most pressing educational problems--the need for elementary and secondary school construction. A national conference is scheduled to meet this fall to discuss the situation, but discussion will hardly rebuild dilapidated school building or provide classrooms for almost 700,000 children who now attend school only part-time. Expanded Federal aid for school building, as contained in a bill introduced by Senator Lister Hill, is the only realistic way to assure an adequate public school system...
...certain amount of encouragement in the blanket of snow that has settled upon Cambridge. Tramping to Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...
...snow, nonetheless, will delay river bank gamboling for several weeks, and make the distance to women's colleges seem even further. The normal activities of this term are already slowed--skaters are pausing to shovel off frozen lakes, and careful autoists are wrestling with tires and rusty chains. Even the shoeshine will have to wait until the small boys put away the buckets of water they are now using to freeze snowballs out of dry flakes...
...Press Secretary Hagerty. The censorship has nothing to do with national security. It is governed by consideration of Republican security. Thus after Wednesday's conference, Hagerty deleted 11 of the 27 questions-and-answers before letting the show go on the road. For example, when asked about his delay in reappointment of Ewen Clague as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, [the President] confessed he had never heard of the fellow. His responses to questions about the Ladejinsky muddle and ex-Senator Cain's criticism of the security program were among other deleted matters. Thus, what TV and radio were...