Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This threat had stirred slow-moving Labor Minister "Hump" Mitchell into last-minute activity. Five days before the strike, the Minister announced to a dumfounded Parliament that the Government had seized the three plants. Only an hour's notice was given the union: even less was given management. But the Government was too late, and offered too little...
...fact it is one of the best hot records of recent years. Don Byas, temporarily forsaking the riffy, howling style he has been courting lately, and Johnny Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges is on his best behaviour, playing the type of music he likes best in the style in which he best likes to play...
...week, after 20 years as president of the most prestigious Negro college in the South, 58-year-old Thomas Jones decided it was time to leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...
...Jesus she wrote in the mystic's language of love: "I feel myself consuming with love for You, and this is a great torture to me, a slow martyrdom at not being able to do something for You. . . . Convert me, Jesus, convert me completely to Yourself, for if You do not make me a saint, I will not know how to work in Your vineyard and will end by betraying Your interests, instead of rendering them successful...
...Nashville, told doctors' wives that they must join the fight. Said he: "Infiltrate yourselves as individuals into other women's groups so that when the occasion arises you can influence others. . . ." A gregarious, balding surgeon, Dr. Shoulders raises Tennessee walking horses which, he says, "are like me-slow-gaited and dependable." In the classic A.M.A. tradition, he views socialized medicine as a scheme of "political crackpots . . . enemies of freedom . . . importers of alien philosophies." Dr. Fishbein might have been soft-pedaled, but the A.M.A. was stubbornly sticking to its tune...