Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale was held on the fifth floor, but elevators did not stop there. To reach the scene of battle customers had to take slow escalators or ride elevators to the fourth or sixth floor and go on foot from there. When the crowds grew too thick, Gimbels turned the escalators...
...origins. His roots in Poland's life go deep-deeper than the Red Army's. He was born a peasant in a nation that is 75% peasant. He came up politically as a peasant spokesman. He has never lost his peasant temperament; he is solid, slow in speech and thought, stubborn in principle and action. His chief political defect is a peasant's sly caution, often carried to the point of hesitation at moments of decision. Even his only known hobby has the peasant touch: he is a beekeeper...
...years had passed since Francisco Franco called Germany and Italy "dear nations who were the vanguard of our movement." Last week he received the A.P.'s slow-to-startle DeWitt MacKenzie and startled him with this interview...
...bulk of Animal Farm describes the slow rise to absolute power of Comrade Napoleon and the gradual transmogrification of the pigs. Comrade Snowball proposed to industrialize Animal Farm by building a stone mill. Comrade Napoleon declared the plan nonsense. He drove...
...Seven Commandments on the barn wall had been reduced to one. To the slow-witted work animals Benjamin, the donkey, read the new Commandment...