Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from the curb can be considered a fire hazard and should be ticketed. However, I have observed that the Cambridge fire department does an excellent job of extinguishing fires during the daytime next to properly parked cars. Also, there is negligible traffic at night to delay their arrival at fires...
...weather was exceedingly warm and the ceremonies strikingly tedious. There was much inexcusable slugglishness and delay in the movements of the officials. . . . The aisles were crowded with a heated and panting congregation...
...29th state, Andhra, a rich rice land carved from the state of Madras (see map). On hand for the inauguration ceremony, smiling and suitably festive, was India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who had done everything in his power to block the new state and to delay its creation. Andhra was specifically designed to fit the largest block of Telegu-speaking people-some 20 millions-into one state. Nehru feared this would set a trend towards the Balkanization of the Indian Republic along the lines of India's 15 languages, 250 dialects. Five other linguistic groups were already...
...work in an obvious reluctance to rush through any progressive measure. In 1850, the Proprietors voted to embellish the center plot with a statue of Columbus to balance a gift of a smuggled Florentine statue of Aristides in the Just. A committee was charged to find, "with as little delay as possible," a suitable statue. A short two years later they reported success and now the statues stand guard at each end of the green. In past days, Italians from the North End would descend once a year upon the Square to crown Columbus with a wreath...
...making its choice, West Germany pushed French Premier Laniel and his government to a point where France could not much longer delay its choice. With West Germany's strength badly needed in the cold-war defense line, France had to choose the European Army or risk some blunter solution that puts Germans back into their own feldgrau uniforms, with their own high command. Jauntily expectant that a decision is in the offing, Bonn's "Bureau Blank," the embryonic West German war ministry, last week placed an ad in the newspapers: "Wanted: 500 clerks, secretaries and interpreters ... Must...