Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delay ruffled Philip Partridge, 43, the county engineer, who is white and a vehement opponent of racial segregation. He reasoned that if the Negro school did not exist the authorities would have to desegregate immediately. Accordingly, he set fire to the Negro school. After $4,000 worth of damage, firemen saved the building...
Until last week all this passion and misgiving had produced only delay. Then along came France's Premier Mendés-France, with his policy of timetables and . alternatives. At Brussels he confronted the other five members of EDC with a choice: he could push EDC through the French Assembly, but only if France's partners would agree to amendments that would make it an old-fashioned military alliance. Gone was the controversial notion of a common army for a United Europe...
...agree with the French proposals." Konrad Adenauer followed, looking grey, tired, and deeply suspicious of the facile Frenchman opposite. The 78-year-old Chancellor objected to Mendès' discriminations against German soldiers, but what he feared most was the possibility that the Frenchman was maneuvering for further delay in the hope of getting Soviet agreement to the neutralization of Germany. Konrad Adenauer too could state unpleasant alternatives: another setback to German hopes of sovereignty would lead disgusted Germans to reject Adenauer's misplaced faith in Western Europe. His government might fall. And with Der Alte gone...
...organize last week, Joe McCarthy tried to take the offensive by asking to attend their meetings. He was rebuffed. The committee selected Watkins, the senior Republican, chairman, and decided to bar TV, radio and photographers from its hearings. Watkins snorted, "Certainly not," when asked if the committee might delay a report until after the November elections. But he said that the committee would not begin hearings until after the Senate had acted on remaining "must" legislation...
...minute support from a syndicate of Philadelphia businessmen. If Co-Owners Connie, Roy and Earle agree to sell their stock, Harry Sylk, president of Philadelphia's Sun Ray Drug Co., promises that he and some friends will match Midwesterner Johnson's price. Such well-heeled sentimentality may delay the Athletics' departure for a while, but Connie Mack, for one, is willing to face the truth. A move, he says, is inevitable...