Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still the war against Japan-no one knew how long that would last. But against Japan, too, Russia might well play a decisive role. And there was also the possibility that German resistance might slow down the Russian advance. But at least it did not seem too much to hope that, if this Russian drive was not the last, it was the next to last, that a joint summer offensive from east and west would completely shatter the power of the Reich to wage...
...points in the last 12 seconds of the first half gave the Crusaders a 30 to 17 lead at intermission, Freshman Bernie Prusaczyk teaming with sharpshooting, diminutive Tom Deem to score 34 of the invaders' tallies. After a slow start, the Purple quickly found its mark and was never headed by the home team...
Broad-faced, wide-mouthed Marshal Zhukov was called to Moscow when the Red Army's summer offensive at Warsaw began to slow. Perhaps even then he and Stalin foresaw the months of work ahead of the huge offensive-the marshaling of overwhelming superiority in men & machines, the strategic moves to keep the Germans busy in the Balkans...
Then the guns open up, concentrating on the crest. For five minutes they hammer and rock the earth. The general calls another break. In 15 minutes he signals again: this time he wants a slow barrage to cover his infantry crawling up the mountain. It comes in a steady drumfire...
Plotted Energy. Before he donned the cloth, Boston fans got one final look at the Flying Parson in motion. He gave his schoolboy rivals handicaps up to 90 yds. in the Boston Y.M.C.A. twomile, then won going away in slow time...