Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Bs. But Ulithi's chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...
...ideal is a system which shall be as fair to the fast as to the slow, the hand-minded as to the book-minded, but which, while meeting the separate needs of each, shall yet foster that follow feeling between human being and human being which is the deepest root of democracy...
...Slow. The Americans have learned not to be too hasty. We closed the Berlin theaters and nightclubs the Russians had opened in our sector. The Germans protested and we could think of no good reason for the move, so we opened them again. In general we have continued Russian policies unless there was a good reason to change them...
...good on the bottom level. Between the British and Russians they are not quite as good on any level. Reason: the British are more set in their ways. Top-level Americans and Russians have made a deliberate effort to know each other as men, which the British are more slow to do. For instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with several officers in his retinue. When his U.S. opposite number, Colonel Frank...
Sport stars usually fall faster than they rise, and Gunder (''The Wunder") Hägg fell with a thud on last winter's U.S. tour. One slow time win in five tries was the best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...