Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truth Is Slow. It had, and it was well that it had, for the real facts in the case were ugly...
Consider the spiritual implications of the agonizingly slow awakening of public opinion in England to the Government's slave trade in German war prisoners. . . . Now, on what ground has the British Government-a Labor Government!-justified this brutal business? And why has the public for so long so complacently accepted the Government's policy? "Without the labor of the war prisoners, we shall never be able to harvest our crops." True, perhaps, but what different justification did pagan Rome give for the slave system which finally did so much to destroy...
...second in the direction opposite to the motion of the earth (see diagram) * Since the earth moves at 18½ miles per second, the space ship's net forward motion would be 10½ miles per second (18½; minus 8 miles per sec.). This speed is too slow...
Talking of the slow progress toward peace, he said "the very root of our difficulties" may be a belief by Soviet leaders that another war is inevitable. His thesis was that such a fear, not only in Russia but elsewhere, increases tension and brings about conditions which prevent world recovery...
...convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union men as well as Navy yeomen, battleships as well as battered Liberties. In port, these crews, as civilians, had prerogatives denied members of the Armed Forces. The stories of the strikes and slow-downs are circulated with hardly a word about the overwhelming number of incidents which proved the overall reliability of the personnel of the Merchant fleet...