Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrong Bucket. Crops-after a slow start in many states-were wonderfully good again. U.S. farmers, pleased at the prospect, were buying grey-market Cadillacs and planning trips to Europe. Farmer John Sternberg of Fulton, Ill. sent a load of Aberdeen Angus heifers to Chicago, got $39.25 a hundred pounds, the highest price per hundred pounds ever paid for heifers on the open market. Ohioans told a story about a farmer who took a bucketful of money to the bank to pay off an $8,000 mortgage.The teller emptied it, said: "There's $10,000 here." Said the farmer...
...nomination, Alben Barkley talked informally about his service in the Senate with Harry Truman. Said he: "We're teammates now, and after the election we'll still be a team, in there pitching with the catcher understanding the signs of the pitcher, whether it will be a slow drop or a chin cutter...
Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles, Cuba and the Philippines, he was still only a first lieutenant...
...Since horsecarts are not allowed beyond Kaiyuan, they must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities hustle the travelers on to rugged refugee trains-a sort of slow-moving human cattle car jampacked with unwashed, heartsick bodies...
Third Down. For the 100-meter dash, the crowd's favorite event, Mel Patton ("the world's fastest human") wore a pair of brand-new spikes; his old shoes had gotten wet and fallen apart. Patton got off to a slow start, along with Dillard, who was hoping to qualify in two events (dash and hurdles). Ancient (30), competition-wise Barney Ewell, a Negro foundry-worker and a father, whom nobody had given much of a chance to win, made a flying start, pumped furiously with knees high for the first 60 yards, then relaxed...