Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote, "our little camp [at Portsmouth, England] was shaking and shuddering under a wind of almost hurricane proportions." The worst June storm in 20 years raged over the Channel; already the invasion had been postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
Tensely, the assembled Allied command looked to Ike for decision. In such weather, airborne and amphibious landings could be disastrous; the storm, resuming, might isolate the leading elements cross-Channel. On the other hand, a fortnight of delay would demoralize 2,000,000 pent-up troops, tangle intricate plans, and perhaps tip off the Germans. The conference lapsed into silence while Ike briefly pondered the dangers. Then he looked up, his face brightening. "Well," he said...
There was a delay: the Communists had dug 8-ft. trenches across the roadway; they had totally removed the approaches to a couple of bridges, which were left resting on their supports in midair. The French brought up bulldozers and 200 sweating Communist prisoners to repair the road, much as the Communists also use "volunteers" when the French planes knock out their supply routes. At midday the column got moving again, past a sign that read: DON'T KILL. DON'T RAPE. DON'T BURN. DON'T ARREST YOUNG PEOPLE. At 1 p.m. our advance elements...
...actor waits. He is essentially a gear -no matter how large and important a gear-presently to be inserted into the mechanism of moviemaking, and delay is his lot in life. He is called to walk through his part-while the babble of voices goes steadily on-and is dismissed to wait some more. He is called back to pose and turn while a man with a light meter goes over him like some latter-day Holmes peering through a magnifying glass. He is cornered by a harried female in slacks, who stares at him in distaste and pats...
Yearbook President William K. Dabney '55 said the delay was due in part to the fact that the book was 70 pages longer than expected. Much of the binding work, he said, had to be done by hand...