Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
...miles out of Hanoi, on the crucial supply road to Haiphong, our car is suddenly halted. Trouble ahead in the next village: the Viet Minh have ambushed some trucks and four Frenchmen have been killed. The tanks must clear the road; there will be half an hour's delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still...
...Paris instructed its high commissioner in Germany to veto the amendment to the West German constitution, passed by the Bundesrat, to enable the Germans to rearm within EDC. Later, the French agreed to approve the amendment on conditions that would require a delay of four or five months in German ratification of EDC. The Germans jutted their jaws. Editorialized Hamburg's influential Die Welt: "If the French had intended to produce Europamüdigkeit [a state of being fed up with Europe], they could not have acted otherwise." The West German Cabinet bluntly told Paris that its conditions would...
...fair and long-suffering at its hearings that it will hear all witnesses at any length. As a result, shippers and farm lobbies know that they can filibuster a rate increase merely by bringing in more witnesses. Meanwhile, the railroads' costs have already gone up. Since 1945, the delay in rate cases has cost the railroads more than $500 million...
...trials in their areas, argued that 1,000 cases were not enough to prove the safety of the vaccine or give a valid indication of its effectiveness. They suggested advance trials of 10,000 and 50,000 subjects. This would have meant a full year's delay of the large-scale national trials...