Word: stalling
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Even Arizona's nomination of her favorite conservative son, Senator Barry Goldwater, was meant more as a "symbol of an open convention"--like the playful nomination of Joe Smith in 1956--than as a serious attempt to stall the inevitable Nixon victory...
...Kishi was still determined to sweat out final ratification of the treaty. The Socialists mustered their forces to demand a Diet recess, which would stall off ratification. Demonstrators seethed around the Diet building. Thousands of students attended the funeral of their "Joan of Arc," Michiko Kamba, and a flower-bedecked altar was set up at the spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi...
...With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where the U.S. currently bases three U-2s, the opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's new security pact with the U.S. With near-hysteria, London's Daily Herald called the U.S. a "summit saboteur," and the Daily Mail angrily described Eisenhower as "a tumbled titan . . . with inept hands...
...current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
...second smellie released in recent months. Behind the Great Wall (TIME, Dec. 21) beat Todd's picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell-O-Vision" (which supplies every customer with his very own scent vent...