Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to build a goathouse first. But Mrs. Chamberlain reckoned without the small, slow grinding of the bureaucratic mills. Her application for a timber license bounced back & forth for 13 weeks, among six different government agencies. Baffled and angry, Mrs. Chamberlain wrote to the newspapers. Last week her story rang across all England...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, keeping up a brisk pace after being advised to slow down, was hustled off to the hospital. Nothing to worry about, the doctors said...
Fanny (French). Marcel Pagnol on unmarried pregnancy, paternal love and the power of money and family. An old one (1937), presumably imported for admirers of the late Raimu. Slow, wordy, subtly complacent, yet often deeply perceptive and moving...
Educators who opposed the velleities of the President's report were slow to speak up; they were afraid they might be misunderstood. But here & there a voice was raised. First was the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, which carries some top names in U.S. education, led by Gordon Keith Chalmers, president of Ohio's Kenyon College. But the commission's phrases made no headlines. U.S. colleges, the commission insisted, had always insisted on students with "above average capacity." Did that make them "aristocratic," as the President's Commission had suggested...
...Though both are New York City teams, they are not on each other's schedules, and until last week had no victims in common. But last week, partisans who wondered how N.Y.U.'s fast-break game would fare against Columbia's slow, deliberate attack had something to argue about. Cornell, which had dropped two games (by 61 to 48 and 58 to 53) to N.Y.U. earlier in the season, lost a closer one to Columbia...