Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger part of the share" in financing the construction will be borne by the Yen-Ching Institute, an organization completely separate from the University. The University will, however, contribute to the cost of the program, since, as Reischauer says, "the plans include office and stall space for the benefit of all members of the University...
...School ('41), was deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force Service Command in England during World War II, since 1953 has been in charge of all Air Force procurement and production. Capital's directors hope Baker's experience will help cure the line's financial stall (caused in some measure by Old Pilot Carmichael's overambitious purchase of 52 Viscount turboprops), push it back up to cruising speed...
...railroad. The seventh child of a poor carpenter, he was brought up in Ravenna, considered a career in civil engineering before he turned to racing, in which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that he had a voice. Pinza prepped with a home-town voice teacher, was accepted by the conservatory at Bologna, made a whistle-stop debut with a small opera company, and departed for World...
...took only one Egyptian stall last week for Secretary of State Dulles to point to Egypt's "tendency to drag its feet." The U.S. was shifting its pressure from Israel to the dictator by the Nile...
...torrent finally petered out, the exhausted Menon held the alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation of most of the strategic state of Kashmir...