Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) In an icy conference room in West Berlin one day last February, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov sang an old, sour song. After nine years of delay and diatribe, the Soviet Union still refused to sign a peace treaty ending the occupation of Austria. As Molotov droned on, a tall man slouched low in a chair, whittling on a pencil, calmly watching the shavings drop to the floor. When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket. Then the U.S. Secretary of State leaned forward...
Assembly vote on the Paris accords by Dec. 23. He had also declared himself in favor of ratification first and a meeting with Malenkov later. But powerful French right-wing Deputies, no longer able to delay the vote, sought to delay implementation of the treaties-to give Russia chance to show by her actions that German rearmament was unnecessary. Mendes moved with accustomed nimbleness. The French charge d'affaires in Moscow was instructed to talk with Molotov about the Austrian peace treaty. Then Mendes told the rightist Deputies: "If the Russians really have anything to say, they...
...even reached the discussion stage. The housing program was proposed in April, sent to committee, and has not been heard of since. Neither has the program for new school buildings. Communists or fellow travelers, who hold more than a third of the seats in Parliament, sabotage and delay. Quarreling allies and vigorous enemies are not Scelba's only handicaps. There is also the problem of his own Christian Democratic Party...
...varsity has been somewhat handicapped by lack of practice time during the past two weeks because of the delay in the completion of the roof on the Watson rink
Danger in Delay...