Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, he suggested that since normally there was a half-hour delay while the timer activated the back-up recorder, Dean's conversation might have taken place in that dead interval. When the length of the conversation was pointed out, Zumwalt suddenly recalled that the changeover timer was set to operate only six days a week, since a single six-hour reel could normally handle the relatively limited weekend conversations. That meant no back-up recorder takeover on Sunday if the tape...
...Congress's Democrats, and a great many Republicans, toward the appointment of Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski as Archibald Cox's successor. They were even more determined than before to create a special prosecutor independent of the Executive Branch. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged his colleagues to delay action on Nixon's nomination of Senator William B. Saxbe as Attorney General in order to take up the special prosecutor legislation first...
Oddly enough, after the radiator was silenced, Starker at last began to play with the feeling that had been absent before the delay. The orchestra seemed ragged after the discouraging episode, but Starker opened up, singing his notes instead of merely stating them with technical flawlessness. In the final moments of the third movement rondo, Starker gave the audience what it had been waiting for all night...
...friend Ford, "I would vote to confirm you today." Because of the scandal-ridden climate of the times, however, Albert felt (and Ford agreed) that he had to order the Judiciary Committee to be thorough in its investigation of Ford. But he rebuffed Democratic partisans who demanded that he delay House action until after the Senate acts. He explained: "I think I have a personal and an official responsibility to do it as quickly as it can properly be done...
...experiments on the Air Force nurses shed no new light on a major medical mystery of the space age, which was described last week by Physician-Astronaut Joseph Kerwin: loss of 6% to 20% of the body's red blood cells in space and a delay in replacing them after returning to earth. "The plasma starts going immediately,"e; Kerwin told the American Academy of Pediatrics in Chicago, "and the red blood cells follow." Kerwin, who was responsible for medically monitoring his mates on Skylab 1, also found that loss of blood fluid-and muscle tissue-was so great...