Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bomb Delay...
Minutes later I was being taken to the station in the company of a policeman. I was put on a train for West Berlin without having to pay for the ticket, and was glad to be leaving without any further delay...
...being fooled by coos from Moscow. In Britain, Sir Anthony Eden concluded that there has been some welcome relaxation of tension, but "there has so far been no modification whatever of Soviet policy." U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, joining Mendes-France in rejecting the Russian attempt to delay ratification of Western agreements on rearming Germany, said he had discovered no gentle conduct beneath the soft words. In his best Engine Charlie style, U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson had a down-to-earth formula: "coexistence," but not "cohabitation...
Time to Talk. In other words, Russia could not be allowed to frustrate or delay the West's building strength. Once the Paris pact is safely ratified, the West's Big Four would be ready to listen and to talk. The parley at the summit, so long urged by Churchill, may yet come off. On his recent visit to Washington, Adenauer told Dulles and Eisenhower frankly that since Germany can be unified only by agreement with Russia, as a political necessity he must seek talks once West Germany has received its sovereignty. Somewhat reluctantly, Dulles and Eisenhower pledged...
...that winds its huge weights into place. As he worked away inside the tower, hurrying Londoners in the crowded Strand below glanced up as usual for a reassuring look at the great white dial that guided their daily scurrying. Auto horns blared their impatience at a moment's delay, exhaust pipes splattered with selfimportance, old friends called out greetings, and tardy law clerks beat sharp tattoos on the pavements with hurrying heels. In the cacophony that makes a great city, no one-would hear a cry for help coming from behind the clock face in the tower...