Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. The reason for the delay is that we have had a bomb threat. Please pick up all hand baggage and evacuate the aircraft, Immediately...
...effect of this one-way movement was to heighten the shared experience of the passengers even more. Passengers congregated in small groups to discuss their emotional response to the bomb scare, to talk about helping fellow passengers to ease the inconvenience of the time delay, and to share sympathy for missed appointments. There was very little verbalized hatred for the unknown person responsible for the bomb threat; the passengers concentrated on helping each other by talking about their own circumstances in their unfortunate, but accepted situation...
After becoming a circuit-court judge, he joined in granting a desegregation delay to five Southern states. It was a decision tacitly endorsed by Nixon's Southern strategist, John Mitchell. In mid-January, as Carswell and Mitchell were dining and discussing the impending appointment, the Supreme Court reversed Carswell's decision and told the states to desegregate...
...semester delay in finishing the low-rise section caused many Mather men extra hardships. Some men had to double up in graduate school dormitories while others were forced to double in tiny singles or living rooms in the other Houses...
Hanify postponed the referendum-scheduled to be handed out in registration envelopes on February 2-after 40 persons in Dunster House signed a petition requesting the delay. The petition claimed that many undergraduates had not seen the HUC plan and did not know the specific proposals...