Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow start due to last week's intermittent rains, the Freshman and NROTC baseball leagues have racked up only one official contest apiece. Last Tuesday Company One's Gray shut out the Company Three nine 6 to 0 in a one sided five-inning battle, while on the previous Thursday in a Fresh inter-House contest Smith rolled over Standish 5 to 3 behind the able pitching of Hutchins. Freshman softball has been irregular due to a light turnout...
...lips. Then Byrnes went right to work with a first official statement: there would be no basic change in U.S. foreign policy, no immediate changes in the State Department's personnel. But, he added, there was going to be a survey of the Department's structure. The slow-moving State Department quivered. Everyone who knew him knew two things about Jimmy Byrnes: 1) his dislike for professional diplomats of the stuffier stripe; 2) his liking for swift, direct action...
...figure in the State Department. So, apparently, would be able Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton, at whose appointment last December left-wingers had raised a wailing cry of anguish. To Will Clayton, in Jimmy Byrnes's first week, went new duties. He was appointed U.S. member of the slow-moving United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council, which was bitterly in need of Businessman Clayton's energy and hard-headed smartness...
...scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...last week planes from Britain carried tons of top-priority ballot papers for distant war theaters, some (e.g., in Burma) to be dropped to combat troops by para chute. Because these far-flung soldier votes will be slow in returning, the election result will not be announced before July...