Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
Premier Joseph Laniel is for EDC-conditionally. Said Laniel to the French National Assembly: "For my part I refuse to seek solutions to the difficulties of the hour in equivocation or delay. I am for Europe. I say it clearly. But on certain conditions, which I have stated no less clearly...
...will pressure the Americans and British for "precise assurances" that they will keep their troops on the European mainland. But Bidault, ordered to rest completely for 48 hours, retreated gloomily from the scene, his climactic effort a failure. Almost with relief, French politicians grasped at one more chance for delay, put off a vote until this week. In the end the Assembly was expected to approve EDC-in principle-but the parliamentary eagerness to avert decision was at least as eloquent as any vote would...
...urge that all groups or individuals interested in being part of such a program begin work now. If the committees are soon formed and the money quickly raised, theatre can return with no further delay to its rightful place at Harvard...
Metcalf said that the delay is due to scheduling difficulties and the "time needed to assess student backing for the program...