Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruelly bungled. Cecil Catling, correspondent for London's Star (a veteran crime reporter and an expert on hangings), declared that there was not enough room for the men to drop, which would mean that their necks had not been properly broken and that they must have died of slow strangulation. In addition Catling claimed that they were not properly tied, so that some hit the platform with their heads as they went down and their noses were torn off. The U.S. Army denied his story...
...than most of his fellow colonos. Yet after giving 53% of his sugar crop to the central (mill) in return for grinding it, and paying for wages, fertilizer, etc., he would have about $64 left of the $4,200 his 1946 crop was supposed to be worth. In the slow, throaty speech of the Cuban countryman, Nicolás summed up his problem: "We would be making some money now but prices have gone so high that we don't make ends meet any better than we did in bad times. Our crops don't sell for three...
...celebration would end in the Procesión de los Blancos, when the upper classes would be allowed a brief inning. Till then, business would be slow in Lima. Socialists and Communists, despite their dim. view of all religion, would not molest the procession. But if they tried, the broad-backed brotherhood of litter-carriers would strip off their purple coats and attend to them...
Josephine Baker, golden brown toast of prewar Paris music halls, was in a Neuilly hospital, making slow recovery from an intestinal ailment. She had a new piece of finery: a Medal of Resistance, with Rosette, given her for aiding French Intelligence in Lisbon and North Africa early...
...Duchess could be far more impressive on the stage than it ever seemed last week. Even with Poet Auden's cuts* the play had, perhaps, to be slow of pace. But it did not have to be so barren of atmosphere or thin of texture. Nor need it have been acted, and frequently overacted, in so many manners with so little style. Only Elisabeth Bergner as the Duchess played with anything like stature. Passable in an important role, and using whiteface, was Negro Actor Canada...