Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts replace each other. The hardest fact was that the British Empire had indeed changed since the bright and brassy days when young Ernie started to read his Hansard. Old Ernie took over Britain's foreign affairs at a time when the country was facing a slow and perhaps agonizing battle for survival. The second Battle of Britain would not be as dramatic as the first. The skies over the Empire would not be as black as in Churchill's finest, darkest hour; but they would be a lasting grey. The uniquely delicate bonds and balances...
...with the end of the war. He learned English by doggedly rising each morning at 6 a.m. 'for an hour's study, impressed the British as a "man of distinction." In London Mikolajczyk's arguments with dynamic Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski brought out his special qualities. Slow, verbose Mikolajczyk always lost the verbal bouts to Sikorski. Mikolajczyk would withdraw in confusion, then write a laborious answer weighted with political idealism. Sikorski would read it, then sharply ask: "Well, what do you want to do about it?" Mikolajczyk always stuck to his guns...
...lived) in wartime England, finally sued him for divorce, opened the way for his marriage to the quadruplets' mother, 24-year-old Norah Carpenter. Grounds: "indignities." Cried ex-Sergeant William H. Thompson: "Hurray!" Mother Norah, still in Derbyshire, promptly inquired about transatlantic plane fares, bubbled: "Boats are too slow...
...chugged along, a half -stride behind the long-striding king of U.S. milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...
...only brightening spot in textiles was in hosiery. Production of nylons had been slow getting started (mostly because of the shortage of nylon thread). But production is now hitting 30,000,000 pairs a month. They should soon begin to appear on the market in greater quantity...