Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making Durocher "manager of the year," but it was not enough to keep the talented, slow-starting Cards out of first place last week...
...week's end, A.T. & T. had climbed back 8¾ points, stood at 189¼. The rest of the market showed signs of making another slow, tedious climb back to grace. Some brokers say this shows the bull market is still alive & kicking. But security Analyst John H. Lewis did some plain speaking in The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. Said he: "The four-year-old bull market ended last May 31st." Wall Street sighed, hoped it wasn...
There was Winston Churchill, dumpy, "mostly stomach," a cigar stuck in his "large, round mug." There was Franklin D. Roosevelt, jaunty in a dinner jacket, "vivid and agile." And there was onetime Slovene immigrant Louis Adamic. earnest, slow-spoken author of The Native's Return and other books. Adamic was all eyes, all ears...
Hard-luck man of the meet is Don Felt of Lowell. Felt rowed in the novice singles group and entered the third heat for that group on Tuesday. His heat started slow, with Bill Homans pulling away to a two-length lead, but Felt settled down to a long powerful stroke and as they approached the first bridge he was rapidly gaining on Homans...