Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit in the reservists' case...
...scale of the disturbances was greatly enlarged in numbers, intensity and violence by the delay in calling the police--from Thursday night until Monday night--which the Ad Hoc Faculty Group forced upon the University officials. Although perhaps the effort had to be made, there was never a significant chance that the Group could negotiate a peaceful withdrawal from the buildings. Forcing a delay, by threats of physical interposition, increased the likelihood of violence and magnified the reaction by lending an air of legitimacy to use of the tactics of physical disruption as means of forcing one view of policy...
...force is necessary to make the arrest and the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a forcible felony, or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless arrested without delay...
There were also new reports that Moscow was trying to unseat Dubcek; the result was yet another delay in the planned conference between Czechoslovak and Russian leaders in Moscow...
...four years after he was judged an "immortal" worthy of being seated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Joāo Guimarāes Rosa donned the official gold-braided uniform and formally took his chair. Publicly, he explained the delay by saying he had been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...