Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, March 10] in South Carolina, I am wondering why we have blamed all the sadism and torture of recent times on the Nazis and Japs. Can it be that there are those in our own United States who have still not had their fill of suffering, torture and slow death these past few years? ... If there are those who can stand and "laugh" and "cheer" at this unbelievably disgusting exhibit of perversion in one of our states, then we had better take up the cudgels where we left off in Europe...
...Calm & Slow. In ruling Hummon out, the court had pooh-poohed his contention that it had no jurisdiction in the case. Georgia law, said the court, states plainly that the legislature may elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
Acting Governor Thompson ("I look better just plain M. E.") was delighted. "I plan to take it calm and slow," he said. "I don't like rowdyism...
First his music was slow and mournful, wailing and growling, on Dear Old Southland and Summertime. Then it was fast and happy, on New Orleans' oldtime South Rampart Street Parade. After that came soft, sentimental ballads, like Love for Sale...
Bring On Your Enemies. Not all South Africans were as explicit as the Basutos. But as King George and his family proceeded in slow and dignified triumph across their southern Dominion, they were finding no lack of other loyal partisans...