Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced that EDC will be ratified . . . Indo-China and Geneva have impressed the Frenchmen, showing them that general insecurity is insecurity for France also. The Geneva Conference shows how dangerous Communists are . . . Every delay in EDC ratification strengthens Communists . . . "Adenauer got a last-minute boost from Churchill and Eisenhower in Washington...
...meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon to 70,000 in the vast Olympic Stadium. Then Graham fell ill again, not seriously. But it was enough to delay his next mission-a trip to Paris to treat with the sinners of France...
Then Molotov deliberately demolished all Bidault's hopes for a quick ceasefire. The conference must "examine without further delay the political questions," said Molotov blandly. These should include, "first of all," the "granting of sovereignty" to all three Indo-Chinese states, the holding of "free elections" in each, and the withdrawal of all "foreign" troops. Political discussion, he said, should be parallel with the military, and should be conducted by "direct contact between the representatives of both sides"-an arrangement that would force recognition of the bogus and largely nonexistent "liberation" movements of both Laos and Cambodia...
...security check solemnly raised their right hands and thus became officers, seven days after the rest of their class. Said the Navy's official release: "The Navy regrets the workload involved in screening and clearing such a large number of men in the time available resulted in a delay in the clearances of the three...
...Without delay the Board of Regents asked Mitchell's superior, W.V. Lambert, dean of the College of Agriculture, to investigate and report to them as soon as possible. Lambert subsequently opened his remarks to the regents with a powerful statement of principles (see box) which they liked so well that they adopted it and incorporated it in the University's records as a declaration of university policy...