Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might stay there. He got up at the count of seven. Gradually, through the swelling roar, people realized that they were seeing a Joe Louis who had lost his stuff. Once he had used a deadly counterpunch as his best defense. Now, his reflexes were too slow. In the ninth, he had his best round, slugging it out with his lighter (by 16½ lbs.) foe. But Jersey Joe Walcott, backed into the ropes, took it all, and gave something in return...
...forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...
...subject matter must still be largely arbitrary, and in the humanities any selection must omit important works. Even in the Natural Sciences, which are probably most suited to teaching the basic method and techniques of the field, the students have criticized many elements, including the pace of the courses, slow because of the assumption from the beginning, that students know nothing about the field of study...
Once past these technical barriers the evening was a success. Director Mary Howe used the stage to good advantage, although her actors seemed once or twice to move almost as in a rigid pattern. A slow opening scene was quickly erased by the arrival of the play's comies, and a tempo more conducive to holding a light mood was maintained through the remainder of the play...