Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dread, slow-spreading famine in Shantung and adjoining provinces (TIME, Feb. 6) had pushed 150,000 Chinese to the brink of Death, last week, put 300,000 into a condition of "agonizing starvation," and rendered 1,000,000 stomachs light if not quite empty...
Such fate was nevertheless preferable to the treatment the blacks would have suffered as convicts or prisoners-of-war in Africa. Prisoners were put to slow torture and mutilation at the hands of the captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king...
Nominator Roosevelt wiped up this bit of political mud with a public statement: "Full accommodation was provided for me and my family in the Assembly Chamber, but as I reached Albany late and walking up many steps in a slow process, it was easier and cooler to listen to the speeches outdoors...
Essence of Brattism: "Impose reasonable conditions and enforce them . . . firmly. . . . The control of liquor must be human, not superhuman; firm, not rigid; slow, not fast; democratic in aims, but individualistic in application...
Asphyxiation: Slow, since little acid spilled due to horizontal position; but absence of air hose rendered slow asphyxiation sure...