Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, willowy Leftfielder Ted Williams, 29. He has a batting average of .368, the league's best, despite the variety of defensive shifts against him. And Cleveland would scarcely be out front without the 31-year-old Boudreau. His ankles are bad, and he is notoriously slow on the base paths, but his ability to anticipate plays makes him the best shortstop in baseball this year. In addition, he runs his team and hits...
...slight shock broke the shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled...
...most important thing, he thought, was to keep the imagination sane." And he was sane; he was, as Cantwell puts it, hard as nails. His concentrated life made him "a silent, slow-spoken man, his habitual expression one of quietly listening. He dressed carefully and well. He kept a notebook . . ." From his desk and his books he sallied forth regularly with the notebook to see the world-once, in 1830, taking a trip on the Erie Canal. This was during the summer of a scandalous murder trial in Salem; Cantwell construes Hawthorne's journey as a "flight"-perhaps from...
Saturday's Stadium acrobatics caught several score Boston and New York sportswriters just far enough off guard to cause a slow of ecstatic, heedless, devil may care stories in yesterday's papers. Alison Danzig of the New York Times typified the trend...
Means of improvement of the unhappy situation are necessarily slow and difficult if any but an arbitrary system of assignment is attempted. The housing authorities have however, profited by two similar autumns, and the discomfort, particularly in the case of the Freshmen in the gym, has been much alleviated. The beds are more comfortable, study conditions better, and the closing hour of the Boylston Reading Room has been extended from 10 to 11 o'clock in the evening...