Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE or no LIFE, TIME'S Sports Editor swears that Hatten's curve can turn a corner; that what's more, his fast ball smokes, and that batters can count the stitches on his slow ball...
...campaign was rough; the issues were confused. President Sergio Osmeña was the candidate of the "conservative wing" of the Nacionalista Party. But Osmeña's strongest blocs of support were far from conservative. Manuel Roxas (rhymes with slow boss) wore the label of the Nacionalista's "liberal wing." But Filipino liberal elements-the National Peasant Unionists and the restless, Communist-tinged Hukbalahaps-bitterly hate...
Osmeña's followers painted Roxas as a collaborator with the Japanese, although he had long since been officially cleared of such charges. Roxas furiously stumped the islands, flailed at Osmeña's slow-footed handling of rehabilitation, his "weakness" in controlling the "terroristic Hukbalahaps...
...circumstances of the past thirteen years all point to the fact that this unmarked slate is not the result of lack of direction from Massachusetts Hall. Thirteen years is only a fraction of the time required by the slow maturing process of a Harvard administration. Five of those years were war years; the chief policy-maker was in the active service of his country. To expect any great change in the workings of the University after only eight years of normal educational activity is to demand precocity of the administration, and precocity is traditionally suspect at Harvard. Whatever evidence there...
Great Britain's bumbling auto industry was so slow getting out of the garage that the House of Commons took a look under the hood. One angry member described what he saw last week as "a national scandal." After eight months of trying, the industry could still produce no more than 3,000 cars a week; it would be lucky to achieve even half its original 1946 goal...