Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow and inconclusive on the ground. In some places the Germans attacked, won back a few mountain positions from the Fifth Army; in others the Allies attacked, won a few hundred yards from the Germans. The net result was still deadlock in months-old positions...
...could account for some delay. The Philippine roads had deteriorated under Jap occupation; they went from poor to bad under the pounding of U.S. equipment. Surprisingly, many U.S. maps of Leyte turned out to be incomplete or wrong on ground details. But beyond that there was the dogged, slow defense of the Japanese, who fought as though they never hoped to win-or to stop fighting...
...first two books. When, at 26, he went to England to live, in 1869, he was taken to visit her as solemnly as a promising recruit led into the presence of the general. It was a doleful experience. George Eliot sat glum and uncommunicative, old, cold, heavy and slow. The only sign of life she showed was when James was leaving. Then she said he must have something to read on the long journey back to London, and handed him the two books he had sent...
Fifty years ago young ladies all over the U.S., reading James's best-selling Daisy Miller, his frightening Turn of the Screw, his slow-paced, beautifully constructed longer novels, knew that Henry James was the greatest American writer of fiction. Thirty years ago, he could scarcely get his work published. Twenty years ago he was damned as an expatriate whose talent had withered and died because he left his native land. Ten years ago Marxist critics condemned him as the arch apologist of the ruling class. Now some critics are again saying that James is the greatest of modern...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...