Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here again Olivier helped out Shakespeare. Shakespeare gave to a cynical soldier the great speech: But if the cause be not good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...
...things-the blitz, the grinding work of the wartime embassy, the immense task of selling Britain to the U.S., and the U.S. and Britain to Russia-held no such terrors for Ambassador Winant. In high conference he was slow, sure, and overwhelmingly honest. After bombings he walked the streets of London, helping dig people out. The British grew to love his gaunt figure. He talked to them in trains, buses, subways, and ministries, and reported shrewdly to the President-whom most of the world thought of as the real U.S. Ambassador to Britain. To Britain's leaders, Winant plugged...
...effect was neither sudden nor spectacular. The results of his embassy were slow but lasting; they showed in Allied war solidarity, in understanding between nations, and in the lasting impression of America-at-its-best that Gil Winant left in Britain...
Hard-drinking Haligonians have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
Reductions of tutorial in all but one College department are intended to be permanent, the report revealed, and are the result of an administrative policy of allowing the system to die by a process of "slow starvation...