Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weapons that May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects" (available for Swiss Francs from 7 Ave, de la Paix, Ch-1211 Geneva). The report discusses the historical and legal background, the military uses and the medical effects of weapons including small-calibre projectiles, blast and fragmentation weapons, time-delay weapons, incendiary weapons and weapons which could be developed in the near future...
...report calls for examination of incendiary bombs which disproportionately affect civilian populations. In the case of time-delay weapons such as land mines, international regulation may help to limit the destructive power of the devices to the minimum needed to incapacitate...
...amendment to the Cambridge city ordinances that would place a minimum on the number of policemen on patrol met with the exercise of Councillor Robert Moncreiff's charter right. The move will delay any adoption of the amendment until next week's council meeting, where it will be reconsidered...
...press breakdown at our printer's shop Sunday night, Monday's Crimson is being delivered one day late. We regret the delay and any inconvenience it may have caused...
...Recovery. Once the decision was made, things moved swiftly. Teddy's mother Joan was summoned home from Europe; the diagnosis and the fact that amputation was necessary were kept from the youngster until she arrived. Reporters who had learned of the boy's condition were asked to delay publication of the news. "We didn't want him to hear on the radio or see in the paper that he had cancer," said a family friend. By the time a London newspaper broke the story and prompted its release in the U.S., the Kennedys and Dr. Hyatt...