Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gamey. In Cambridge, Mass., the chief of police got complaints that his men were slow in responding to calls, promptly is sued a departmental order: no more dominoes...
...hearing wore on, political tension mounted. Democrats, who control the committee, let the first two witnesses-Admiral T. B. Inglis of Naval Intelligence and Colonel Bernard Thielen of the Army's General Staff-rehash old facts. Republicans, furious at the slow pace, cross-examined vigorously, but with little effect...
...many a band had risen and fallen: bands with no violins, and bands with 15 of them; bands with plenty of brass, and at least one with none; bands that featured Rippling Rhythm, bands that played Champagne Music. For about the 7,500th time, Guy Lombardo's band slow-dragged I Love You Truly...
Burdened by a book that gets it off to a slow start, "The Day Before Spring" is talky and dull in the first scene but the music and dancing make up for the book's faults...
...would be wiser to put some of our good intentions into cold storage and wait for more favorable circumstance. I wonder if we are not attempting too much at present. I would advise patience-go slow. A little later it might be possible to solve these questions to a larger extent, if not completely. There is a temper in the world today which makes the solution of these questions almost impossible...