Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Elizabeth's decision to knight Hunt and Hillary, but to delay decorating Tenzing until his nationality had been established, made matters worse. King Tribhuvan of Nepal decided to even things up by giving Tenzing the Star of Nepal. First Class, while dismissing the two Britons with the lesser Order of the Strong Right Arms of the Gurkhas. He offered Tenzing his private plane, while Hunt and the British were left to go it alone...
This attempt to work out a bill that will please or almost please everyone is the chief reason for delay in charting the Administration line on Taft-Hartley changes. The clear prospect this week: there will be no congressional action on the labor law until next year...
...second-thoughts of liberals. President Eisenhower will have to deal again and again with McCarthyism, which is a major liability to Eisenhower's foreign policy, his domestic policy and his party. Only an exaggerated fear of McCarthy's power could account for such disgraceful episodes as the delay in the appointments of Mildred McAfee Horton and David Shillinglaw on the ground that they had belonged to organizations that McCarthy may consider subversive. Eisenhower will have to eliminate that kind of paralyzing fear from his Administration...
...call for a general mobilization as did Laos. If there is a menace, the people will say that the French are encircled and their end has come." Embarrassed France made concessions to ward Cambodia's full independence within the French Union. Gratified but impatient of French delay, King Norodom Sihanouk last week took the most unorthodox step of his career: he went into voluntary exile in neighboring Siam...
...hospital, the patient's chances of a good recovery drop swiftly, to only one in ten after seven years. So, Dr. Freeman, who once said of prospective patients: "I won't touch them unless they are faced with disability or suicide," believes now that the hazard of delay is greater than the hazard of performing the operation promptly...