Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to Agnew's advantage to try to delay the grand jury as much as possible. Last week his lawyers filed for a court order that, among other things, would quash the grand jury action on the grounds that "the Constitution forbids that the Vice President be indicted or tried in any criminal court...
...Justice Department will probably delay trying for an indictment until Hoffman makes his ruling, presumably in late October. Whichever way Hoffman decides, the case is certain to be appealed and to reach the Supreme Court, perhaps as early as December...
...HORDES THAT fill the sticky, smok Astor theater to see Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...
Agnew eventually rejected that offer, unwilling to settle for anything less than complete amnesty as the price of yielding office. But the bargaining, say these sources, accounted for the mysterious delay in presenting the Agnew evidence to the grand jury after Richardson had decided that that was the inescapable course of action and had so notified Agnew. All parties to the secret negotiations denied that any such talks had taken place...
...safeguard the six against prematurity and to give them as much time as possible to develop, doctors managed to delay the delivery for about three weeks...