Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside out for them. Just a little understanding of their special problems would do, they think. For instance, 27-year-old Walter Piper, who wears a black glove because he lost his right arm on New Guinea, wishes some of his professors would not be so impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred his arm in Sicily left his elbow so sensitive that when it brushes...
...attempting to report briefly Ex-Missionary Noss's sensible and newsworthy suggestions for adapting the outward symbols of Christianity to Japanese tastes and traditions, TIME omitted his discussion of the more familiar reasons for slow missionary progress in Japan (traditional anti-foreignism,multiplicity of competing sects). TIME is sorry if it inadvertently made Mr. Noss appear overly confident, or overly critical of his fellow missionaries, but doubts that many readers will misconstrue the constructive spirit of his proposals...
...then you hear it. And that's wonderful, because you feel a great wave of relief. You realize that if you've heard the explosion you're more or less all right. Everything happens very slow like, but that's no news to anyone who has been in any disaster. What did I do? Well, the first thing I did was to look into the air, and I noticed it was full of bits of tiles and glass and bricks so I dived again. There was dirt everywhere and a horrible smell like soot-maybe...
Considering its strategic importance, MacArthur's coastal campaign had been one of the most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...
...argument as to the monster's antecedents. Most logical explanation was one adapted from the Idaho Sunday Statesman: Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump...