Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after the year's most dramatic appendectomy (TIME, March 15), Argentina's Strong Man left the hospital to vote for a Peronista Congress. He got what he wanted. Though ballot-counting was slow, particularly in the provinces, his party had captured more than two-thirds of the Congress seats. That will be enough to pass the constitutional amendment which will let President Perón run for a second term...
Over in one half of the cage, Davey Nelson wheeled about 45 backfield men through the first easy stages of the Michigan system. At one point, the diminutive Nelson had his half-a-hundred charges doing slow motion spins and fakes in delicate terpsichorean unison...
...York's Irish, and eventually embracing whole armies of subway sentimentalists) out-yelled N.Y.U.'s although it was N.Y.U.'s home town. They groaned as one when the Irish fell nine points behind. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard Cann sent out an order to play slow, safe and cozy...
Like Old Times. In housing, the market in high-priced old houses was so slow that they were no longer bringing boom prices. Hotelmen experienced a strange feeling: they had empty rooms for the first time in years. In some cities vacancies were up to 20%. Said a traveler: "The trains are filling up again with salesmen talking sales. It's like old times...
Such is the content of Son of the Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...