Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel practice cage, Dick Clemens didn't look much like a lion tamer. The cage was in his backyard outside Peoria. Dick had just come out of the house in an old felt hat and a checkered woolen shirt. He looked more like a leathery, slow-moving farmer. But that was because you couldn't see much of his hide. He'd been working with cat acts for 30 years and he had scars all over him. Doctors had taken 118 stitches in his back and dozens more in his arms and legs...
Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
Ecumenical Century. The new merger underscored a glacially slow but unmistakable trend in sect-ridden U.S. Protestantism. During the late 18th and first half of the 19th Centuries, Christianity in America tended to spatter in sectarian fragments like a spoonful of quicksilver dropped suddenly on marble. Now, in the 20th Century, U.S. Christians have begun to coalesce on their common Christian ground...
While Brent goes digging in the tomb of Ramses V, she takes to lounging around in the incense-heavy den of her blackmailer-lover (Charles Korvin), plotting her husband's murder. By the time Brent's system has absorbed about all the slow poison it will stand, Merle suddenly searches her heart and discovers that her husband, after all, is the man she really, truly loves. With no alternative, the unhappy lady briskly feeds the knockout powders to her lover instead...
Even speeds now reachable, he mused, were pretty sticky for the pilots. "Bailing out is a bit of a problem. If a pilot bails out of a plane speeding 600 m.p.h., the air slows him down so suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...