Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Chairman Chelf: "It appears to me that there was a definite attempt either to flag down, delay, sidetrack, derail or entirely wreck this grand-jury investigation." The committee voted to call in ex-Attorney General McGrath for a fuller explanation...
When Muriel Draper was a little girl in Haverhill, Mass., her father, who had promised her a trip to Boston, took her with him to his bank, where he tried to cash a check for $100 that he planned to spend on the trip. After a moment's delay, the cashier announced, "Sorry . . your account won't carry that." Smiling, Muriel's father wrote out another check and handed it to the cashier, saying, "Well, give me ten ones." Then, on $10, Muriel and her father went to Boston...
...These three elements are necessary and immediate, nor may we suffer delay in other crucial areas if we are to achieve prosperity in the free world...
...West calls cold war . . . From the point of view of the Soviet rulers, the cold war is probably the ideal planning situation, for just sufficient tension can be maintained to justify the priority given to heavy industry . . . and to convince most workers-without frightening them unduly-that the delay in improving their standard of living is due, not to their own government, but to the threats of the capitalist world outside...
...Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay the day when Brazil will be self-sufficient in oil. For eight months it has bottled up a bill that will allow foreign companies to join the government in oil development...