Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white horse, made the mistake of meeting up with his old cavalry man friend, Major General William Chase, in a Tokyo suburb. The General proffered the Admiral a hoary steed and insisted that he trot his stuff. Taking the bit in his teeth, the Admiral ventured a slow, seagoing jog, dismounted quickly, gasped: "Don't leave me alone with this animal. I was never so scared in my life...
While it gets off to a slow start, "You Touched me" succeeds very well as comedy, mostly because of Edmund Gwenn, but where "The Glass Menagerie" had a well-knit cast, Gwenn pulls the cast of "You Touched Me" a little off-balance. And unlike "The Glass Menagerie," the more topical new prodigy of Tennessee Williams types its characters...
...jumps ahead of its competitors, Victor fondly believed that its vinyl resin plastics were the biggest thing in records since Soprano Emma Albani first cut Angels Ever Bright and Fair in 1903. But Victor is going slow. Till Eulenspiegel will be released Oct. 15, and it will be followed by only as many plastic albums as the public demands...
They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...
...Slow Start. This sudden interest in the Export-Import Bank, and the volume of prospective loans, was something new to the Bank. In the eleven years since its creation, it has loaned only $612 million (at a profit of $43 million...