Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backfield Slow...
There was a second way in which the Framingham star caused trouble, and this time it was the Harvard backfield that was slow. Twice Hobin got off little quick kicks that went sipping over the Crimson backs before they realized what was happening. Then, too, on ordinary punts going in the reverse direction the Holy Cross receiver was never once nailed on the spot. A lot of distance was lost on the exchange of kicks on Saturday...
...basic plans for the system. Few months later San Francisco got for its City Engineer a vigorous Irishman named Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy, already well known for his work in California and Hawaii. The War and work on Hetch Hetchy began together. But nothing was to stop the slow growth of the project through the next two decades. As time passed there were the usual impatient charges of waste, incompetence, delay. Engineer O'Shaughnessy parried these thrusts with Irish eloquence, plodded on with his immense, laborious job-cutting miles of roads, laying miles of pipeline, boring miles...
...harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
...little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow starvation. The owners replied: "Come out first; argue afterward." The men replied by returning all food and water sent them. Fire broke out in the mines. The Pecs Fire Department rushed in, hosed it out. The miners insisted the firemen stay down below. After three days, Hungary's bull...