Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Policymaker Bob Taft, with his eye on pledges of economy, wanted to cut about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous...
...restraint, a fire smolders. Again & again at Scarborough it flashed forth in spite of restrained notes struck by Emanuel Shinwell, the conference chairman, and Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons. Morrison called for a period of "consolidation." He indicated that party bosses were going slow on further nationalization of industry...
Composer Berg dedicated this work to his teacher, Arnold Schonberg. But he had not built it on Schonberg's "twelve-tone" technique.* Between two fast, brightly dissonant movements, Berg sandwiched a melodic slow movement that had listeners gasping: the themes build to a climax, then run backward to a close. 1914, even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard...
...slow chill from the Brooklyn fans began before the season opened, when the Dodger brain trust traded away two of Brooklyn's favorite heroes: Dixie Walker and Eddie Stanky...
...film has earned great acclaim in Europe. Those who prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...