Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insistence on strict legal procedure. He criticized the Nürnberg trials on the grounds that they were ex post facto judgments, and therefore violations of American law. He has seldom altered his course because of public opinion. He calls himself a conservative liberal; his political trademark is: "Go Slow." He is hostile to Big Government, solicitous of the rights of the individual...
...presence of electricity in animal brains has been known since 1874; variations in the brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...
...provided to circumvent the administrative rigidities. Exceptions can be made to the long-standing rules through a complex system of votes by various committees. A standout player who missed his Yale game because of illness or injury can be awarded his letter. But the machinery is too involved and slow-moving; therefore, it is little used...
...architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...
...Retirement) merely lacks audacity and fascination. As Macbeth, British Cinemactor Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra, The Captive Heart) mauls the part and even does something to mar the play. His Macbeth is violent without being intense, neurotic without seeming imaginative; and taking Shakespeare's great lines in slow but unsure fashion, he strangles the poetry...