Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character's name was "Lil Thin Dyme" or "Doleful Dogie," Sample line: "Ole Taxes Drainger, he done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...
...Little, Too Slow. In his first speech in seven months - and one of the most thoughtful of his many able addresses - the former Under Secretary of State began by drawing two lessons from World War I. He was sure U.S. citizens had learned one of them well - that the question of American entry into an inter national organization must not be permitted to become a question of party politics. But he suggested that the U.S. had not learned an equally important lesson: that the chances of founding such an organization were far greater if the foundations were laid before rather...
...Christians, black & white, who feel that the churches have been more than slow in offering Christian fellowship to Negroes, there was good news last week...
...free enterprise system, knowing how difficult it is in 1944 to build up an adequate capital position for executives, in order to make good corporate management worthwhile, pondered and argued the question: how can U.S. business pay its top men the salaries they are really worth? But while slow-moving conservatives pondered, fast-moving Harry Sinclair might well smile...
Cairo correspondents were inclined not to blame "Jumbo" or the censors so much as London officialdom. The U.S. press, which for the most part has squirmed silently under increasing censorship pressures, took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that...