Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existence, was no longer in acute danger of disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
...grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
Timothy Dwight staged a sustained third-period drive to nose out Leverett 7 to 0 in a slow game which found the Bunnies slightly outclassed by their Eli opponents. Rob Bast broke loose from the 30 to romp over the the TD touchdown...
This rating, based on season records, is, however, very deceptive. For the Crimson first year charges, after getting off to a slow start because of organization and placement difficulties, have bounded back to romp over their last two opponents, taking the Dartmouth yearlings, 20 to 0, two weeks ago, and then the Bruin Freshmen, 28 to 7, last Saturday...
...baleful cries of ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...