Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band of liberals," led by Alabama's Hill, New Mexico's Anderson, Minnesota's Humphrey and Illinois' Douglas, had filibustered since April Fools' Day to delay voting on the majority-favored Holland bill, which would grant the seaboard states title to offshore lands within "historic" boundaries. The filibusters still insist that they are not really filibustering, and capital correspondents, who would thunder at the first sign of an old-fashioned Southern filibuster, have gone along with the game by refraining from using the word "filibuster" in their copy...
Luang Prabang would be defended, the French promised: "It is a matter of prestige." From Hanoi, the French began airlifting soldiers and equipment to Luang Prabang. Inside the Hanoi delta, Giap launched a surprise attack on Kien Airfield, clearly intending to delay air reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured...
...your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening to the week's testimony, Senator Byrd summed up the picture as he saw it: "I believe the record shows clearly that there were shortages in Korea. I think it shows that, to meet Korean requirements, we have drained United States stocks dangerously. I think the ammunition...
...concessions on the Berlin blockade, not an end to it; a harmless drunk was released, not an important kidnap victim like Berlin's brave Dr. Linse. Peace might come in Korea, and this would indeed be substantial news, but it had not come yet, and the possibilities of delay and dissension at Panmunjom were as great as before...
Charles E. Bohlen, who had his share of senatorial trouble getting approved as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, met still further delay on his journey to Moscow. Some 15 hours after the Bohlen party (his wife, two children and pet poodle Chou Chou) left New York's Idlewild airport, they were back at Idlewild with engine trouble. After a further three-hour wait, they were off again. At week's end the Bohlens were finally in Europe...