Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morrill, guarding the Crimson goal, made numerous stellar stops; neither speedy sizzler nor slow teaser could slide past his impregnable defense...
...have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers that I had 'unmistakably' kicked my husband in the shins while he was escorting the President and Mrs. Coolidge at a charity ball last December. That was slow newsgathering, I think...
...conquering Nationalist Government of South China continued last week the slow encirclement by its armies of the great international city of Shanghai...
...throat is cut and the body tied to the buoy. Or a bloated horse is tied there and bloody scraps are sent floating out to sea. Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope...
...friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade could possibly have any associations with water dripping with fatal regularity from an Inquisition tank to the head of a victim condemned to die by slow torture...