Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, still hoping to surrender to Britain and the U.S. but not to the Russians, still hoping to split the Allies and pose as undefeated opponents of Bolshevism, had another tricky proposal: an agreed retreat before a slow advance of the Allied forces, permitting the Nazis to carry on the fight against the Russians...
...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...
...industry has vastly expanded its research laboratories, as well as its factories, during the war. What will happen to them in peace? Will the laboratories, too, slow, down when war orders stop? Industrialists think...
Sparkplug of the new program is clear-eyed, billiard-bald President Case, 44, who was dubbed by a Princeton classmate ('22) "the man whose forehead is most likely to recede." Slow-moving but thorough, "Ev" Case well knows that the success of the Core depends, more than anything else, on having a crack, wellrounded, flexible faculty. By his own steady example in his two and a half years at Colgate, he has impressed the value of these qualities on the older hands. For the future, he has a sharp eye out for men who consider college teaching an education...