Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the first four gates she took a long chance - refusing to slow up for icy spots. She flew down the slope, zigzagging between the red and yellow flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
...using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
This season, Iba's "slow death" is more deliberate and painful than in previous years. Flashy Texas U. bucked up against the Aggies and bounced back with its horns twisted, 32-31. It was Texas' first defeat. St. Louis U. (TIME, Jan. 12) was rampaging along at a 64-points-a-game pace until Iba's men sat on them, 33-30. It was St. Louis' first defeat...
...poison to Iba's Aggies. At one point in the game, a DePaul player knelt down on the floor and put the ball in front of him, and dared the Aggies to come after it; instead they stood in their defensive positions. With tactics like that, DePaul out-slowed the Aggies, 32-31. The defeat only convinced the Aggies that slow basketball is winning basketball. Last week the Aggies sludged past Tulsa (42-27), and gave arch-rival Oklahoma U. a lesson (45-30) in the waltz. It was victory No. 17 against two defeats...
Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines...