Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despite the obvious point of such jibes, Imperial Airways continued to dawdle serenely along, moderately safe, unduly slow...
...concave line in three directions, columns of Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks in the high Pyrenees...
Stiff resistance, followed by orderly retreat, made the slow, steady Rightist drive a costly affair in men and munitions. Thousands more Moors and Riffs landed at Algeciras from Spanish Morocco. In Italy, no secret was made of heavy replacements of airplanes and pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...
Unfortunately Eddie Ingalis, who was in the box for the Crimson that day, will be unable to pitch and attempt to even the count, having been injured in Saturday's game with California. Coach Fred Mitchell is relying on John Mahoney, slow-ball baffler, to do the twirling. The backstop question is still undecided...
...legs are spindly, his shoulders and arms are as brawny as a stevedore's. At the end of 15 rounds of whirlwind boxing last week, he was breathing no harder than the average person who climbs a flight of subway stairs. His amazing stamina doctors attribute to slow heart action. His powerful arms and shoulders Henry Armstrong attributes to his first job: swinging a sledge hammer in a railroad section gang...