Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just possible that the U.S. may not know who its next President will be until a good two weeks after the Nov. 7 election. Six states, anticipating slow delivery of ballots from the battlefronts, will not count their soldier votes until late in November. If the race is close, their 84 electoral votes may tip the scales of victory. And it is even mathematically possible-so the statisticians delightedly figured last week-that a final, hairline decision might be delayed even longer. The U.S. might actually hang on the hook of suspense until Rhode Island, with four electoral votes, counts...
...London, "Dicky" Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
...Gaulle continued his slow walk up the aisle toward Cardinal Suhard and Monsignor Beaussart, who never faltered either. A Te Deum was playing from the organ where the machine pistolers were hidden...
According to Arthur Douropulos '31, secretary of the group, who teaches all courses, progress towards better use of English has been too slow and this has been largely the fault of the country's secondary schools. Even at Harvard the Committee finds many Freshmen who are not firmly grounded in spelling, punctuation, and grammar...
Some of the world's most fascinating news is beginning to be written: the story of what really has been happening in Occupied Europe during the past five years, in Nazi Germany since 1933, in Fascist Italy since 1922-and the story of these nations' slow awakening to new freedom...