Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although progress is slow, there are plenty of opportunities for those who are willing to give the time and effort, Joseph A. Erickson, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, told the audience...
Governor Stainback had a point. Actually, leprosy is considered less infectious than tuberculosis. But Hawaiians preferred to go slow. Said Harry A. Kleugel, head of the Hawaiian Board of Hospitals: "We should be wary of jumping into something new when the present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent...
...bells didn't bother the Aggies. They played the slow, deliberate, agonizing brand of basketball for which they are famous, and for which fast-breaking St. Louis had no antidote. On the St. Louis bench, Coach Ed Hickey gave an imitation of a man fighting off bees as the score went against him, furiously diagrammed plays on the floor with chalk during time-outs. On the Aggie bench, Coach Hank Iba said reassuringly to his men: "Take your time. Take your time...
Many of them made no bones about the fact that they were back in a competitive market. The market for the high-priced ($18,000 to $40,000) house was "very slow" in most areas; in many places, building of high-priced houses had stopped...
...struck grandson (Dean Stockwell) or leave him ashore to catch up on his book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them, with Dan as first mate, set sail for the whaling grounds and a few stern lessons in character-building...