Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino who cared, the Filipino who both wanted his independence and was afraid of it, the main event would come when small, smart, energetic Manuel Acuna Roxas (rhymes with slow boss), 54, the first President of their first official Republic, would rise and have his say. Then the Filipino flag would come right...
...Nicaragua, there was no sign yet that Somoza had lost his ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
...halfway point, warmed up at last, Strand let out. His white kangaroo-skin shoes seeming scarcely to touch the ground, he swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...
...long, prefabricated "dwellings," black drums of kerosene, and the mystical contortions of two-year-olds in a sand-box. Spirited undergraduates wearing white wool sweater and mouse-colored sneakers, and frothing for a furious afternoon of net-play, are apt to find nothing more athletic at Jarvis than a slow set of Bean-Bag with a law student's heir. And not only are there law students' heirs. There are law students' wives. There are biologists' wives, and spouses and issue of veteran students from most of the University's departments, including undergraduates. When the University opened the project last...
American responsibility does not end with the signatures on the Tyding-McDuffie Act of independence. From the viewpoint of a trustee country that has invested great sums and thousands of lives in Philippine independence it is scarcely consistent to threaten that independence with eventual, if slow, strangulation. And is this new entity to compete on equal terms with Japanese or British colonial enterprise if it must continually scramble to avert economic tragedy in the sugar market...