Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet. It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting out of his safety harness and clearing the plane in a steep sideslip attitude. The sergeant, as eager as I was to get out of the plane, left it about 750 feet, and I did not get clear of the plane until about...
...Iceland) have completed ratification. Italy's Lower Chamber ratified last month, and Senate approval is assured; the Bundestag has accepted in principle, and Chancellor Adenauer expects to get its final vote in February. The U.S. Senate still must ratify. So must the French Senate, which could create another delay, though Mendes-France expects it to ratify within 60 days...
...rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...
Since Noel had withdrawn his amendment, they insisted, it was a new bill requiring yet another 24 hours delay...
Unlike France, Italy last week ratified the Paris accords with a minimum of argument and a maximum of assent. Resisting every parliamentary maneuver to block and delay by Western Europe's biggest Communist Party, Liberals, Monarchists, neoFascists, Republicans and right-wing Socialists joined with Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats to vote 335 to 215 for German rearmament in NATO...