Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lund, a Moscow radio commentator, last week ironically offered his sympathies to U.S. taxpayers: "Keeping this huge $16 billion military budget . . . will mean a terrible burden on the masses. . . ." Pravda reported that unemployment was growing in the U.S., that only "huge Government expenditures on war needs" along with slow demobilization kept it in check...
Never before had they heard or seen such a speaker. He cracked jokes, talked fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
...world's biggest single power source at present is Boulder Dam (1,034,800 kw.). The installed capacity of the Consolidated Edison Co., supplying most of Greater New York, is only 2,433,000. To draw off two million kilowatts would slow the wheels of any industrial center in the world. Why did NACA want so much power? It did not tell, publicly. But others could guess: guided missiles...
...fast, we don't eat slow...
...long tail which may appear, the scientists explained, would be made up of many meteroid clusters trailing behind the parent for as much as 32 million miles. The particles will strike the atmosphere at the slow rate of 14 miles per second, they said, because both will be moving in the same direction...