Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Years' Wait Eight years is a long time to delay a criminal trial, but it is not too long to wait to catch a criminal. A French military commission in Alsace at the time of its recapture from the Germans in 1944-45 uncovered a ghastly prison camp where some 20,000 people had been used as guinea pigs in Nazi medical experiments...
...Communists hailed Sriramulu's "supreme sacrifice," accused Nehru of "deliberate delay in [forming] Andhra state." When the All-India Parliament refused to stand up in homage to Sriramulu's memory, the Communist members walked out. A wave of hysterical emotion swept Andhra territory. Students, youths and workers, led by Communists, attacked Indian government property, cut telegraph wires, damaged railroads, burned rail cars and stoned fire engines, looted railroad restaurants, hoisted black flags of mourning over government buildings. Police, firing on rioters, killed seven and wounded forty. A 13-year-old boy attempted to halt a moving...
...Thanksgiving Day, Ike took a break, had a leisurely dinner with his family. Just before the turkey came on, photographers trooped in for shots of Ike preparing to carve the bird. Noticing the dismay of his three grandchildren at the delay, Ike quickly cut off a few slices and divided them among the kids as an advance helping. Asked why he held the bird in place with a small dinner fork rather than the usual carving fork, Ike gave an embarrassed grin. "It's already packed," he said, ready for the move to Washington...
...delay raised another possibility. Herbert Brownell, who will take over as U.S. Attorney General on Jan. 20, has promised to review all antitrust cases pending in the Justice Department. If he doesn't like how they have been conducted, he can change the teams of lawyers assigned; if he doesn't approve of the cases themselves, or thinks they are too weak, he can drop them...
Last week, before FPC, Algonquin argued that each day of delay would cost it $32,000 in idle men and materials. Replied Northeastern: the only "emergency" was that Algonquin had unwisely built a pipeline on a contested claim. Ruled the FPC majority: under the court decisions, FPC could not grant Algonquin's plea. Instead, FPC ordered new hearings to decide if Northeastern should get the whole market. Not only did Algonquin face expensive delays while the new hearing dragged on. But should it lose, it faced the gloomy prospect of trying to sell its premature pipeline for what...