Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov at one point...
...Russians intend merely to harass and delay, the U.S. intends to stay in the business of defending the free world-politically, economically and militarily-for a long time to come...
Hungry Winner. The delay cost the Cramers 60 points and put them out of contention for the grand, million-franc (about $2,860) prize for performance.* The judges finally cut the field down to the 100 with the lowest penalty scores, sent them off on the hairpin-course speed run that is the Rally's final test...
...really dare hold out indefinitely. "The Russians don't mind the conference beginning." said a cynical French diplomat. "But they won't want it to end." He was undoubtedly right: the longer the Russians can keep the Foreign Ministers in session in Berlin, the longer France would delay getting down to voting on the European Army. But John Foster Dulles is anxious to get Molotov to the table, to see whether anything is on his mind, so Washington talked Paris and London into conceding...
...noon Saturdays, when reserve books go out for the night or for the weekend, and although the building was designed with four floodgates in the main entrance for checking out books at such times, more than two are seldom opened. This results in a good deal of confusion and delay, but that is the student's worry...