Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming is deeply moving, from the time he drags himself in, ragged and exhausted, to the final scene when he rejoins his parents and with slow, swinging, monotonous steps suggests his resignation to the drudgery from which he had tried to escape...
...measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration is an exhaustive, scholarly, 1,000-page volume, based on the huge manuscript diary kept by Fish and containing much unpublished material. No book for hasty readers, it is likely to impress most students as a solid historical achievement, slow-moving but not dull, a biography for those who like facts regardless of the animation with which they are presented...
...edge of the little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided...
Outplaying the Dartmouth Jayvee squad all the way the Crimson seconds turned back the Hanover outfit yesterday by a 6-0 score on a slow, muddy field...
...when she does not like a subject- arithmetic is one-she can, like other little girls, be obstinately slow." ¶During the week King Edward kept in closest touch with the ugly situation developing as Soviet Russia threatened to intervene in the Spanish Civil War and stormy scenes among the diplomats concerned lasted for hours at a stretch in the British Foreign Office (see p. 22). To Buckingham Palace was frequently summoned the brilliant directing diplomat who is not always permitted to prevail at once in shaping the British Cabinet's foreign policy but usually manages to prevail sooner...