Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delay in the launch of Soyuz 10 and its three-man crew stirred more suspicions. Russian officials were apparently deciding if it was worthwhile trying to rendezvous and dock with a craft that would not long remain in orbit. When Soyuz was finally launched, it was unintentionally shot into an orbit higher than Salyut's. It took nearly two days for the manned craft to reach and dock with its target-an operation that the cosmonauts later compared to bringing a train into a large railroad station. Then, only 5½ hours later, having made no attempt to board...
...that massive protest will not leave the methods they understand-lobbying, letter-writing, voting in elections. The spectacle of more and more of their constituents turning away from electoral politics and risking arrest and prison may spark a dim realization that the voters can no longer be appeased by delay and futile gestures: that they want withdrawal, and that they will make trouble until U.S. troops and bombers stop slaughtering the people of Indochina...
...minutes before the announced 8 p.m. starting time of the lecture, the crowd was informed that Ali would not appear until 8:30. Something was mentioned about an airline delay. Such an explanation might have been easily accepted were some other figure, a Marcuse or a Galbraith, to be late; but Ali, like so many other black people of prominence, has been so immersed in an atmosphere of violent ephemerality that the explanation seemed an awkward cover-up of shadier dealings. Someone in the crowd said, "Maybe the pigs have got him won't let him show...
...indispensable corrective tool in cities where large areas are predominantly white or black. Thus when President Nixon last year praised the ideal of the neighborhood school and attacked busing, he was in effect suggesting a slowdown of integration-and Southern holdouts acquired new hope for delay. That hope dissolved last week. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed unanimously that transporting pupils to remedy school board-imposed segregation does not violate anyone's constitutional rights...
...cars from the north. It is an almost absurdly easy city to paralyze. Police may react with tear gas or possibly mass arrests. No matter what they do, the city will be shut down. During a normal rush hour a single accident on Connecticut Avenue is enough to delay traffic for half an hour. A thousand people sitting in the street, mass arrests, and tear gas would cause utter chaos...