Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device. A few months later they achieved the "transistor effect," a greatly amplified signal, using only...
...noonday all Havana closed down. Supporters were trucked in from the countryside to join Habaneras who were given a half-holiday for a "Date with the Fatherland." After the standard delay, during which the crowd of 300,000 sharpened its appetite by shouting "Fidel, give it to the Yankees," Castro arrived. He shouted to the mob, which he called "this free and sovereign assembly," that "no nation of Latin America tas dared to have diplomatic relations with the Popular Republic of [Communist] China. The Revolutionary Government wishes to ask the people if it wants to establish relations." The chant rose...
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...parties. In no such hurry, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson answered that there was no time in so short a session to select and confirm new judges. "Most regrettable," rumbled Attorney General William P. Rogers. Johnson, he charged, was ignoring "thousands of Americans who are denied justice because of delay...
...assurance of sovereignty, guaranteed. The province, containing a tenth of the Congo's people but almost half its wealth, is much too fruity a peach to be let out of Lumumba's grasp. The longer he can stretch out the Congo crisis, the more he will be able to delay a responsible settlement of his nation's affairs. Besides, such a settlement would again draw attention to the sticky question of his incredible promises to American promoters...