Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School Belt. Tense with anxiety, the British Treasury's gloomy office in Great George Street tried to stop the "run on the bank." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, whose toothy grin is almost inextractable, predicted that the run would slow down in August. He was wrong again. Prime Minister Attlee called a Cabinet meeting...
...case came to a tragic but clear-cut end. Dorothy L. Burns, 30, last fall sued Westinghouse for $200,000, claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust...
Loco Knight. In 1587 Cervantes got a job as a government agent, collecting wheat and oil for the Invincible Armada. Collections were slow, and he was excommunicated for seizing wheat belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Seville Cathedral (the Church later took him back). His debtors failed him; his accounts were snarled; in 1592, 1597 and perhaps again in 1602, he was clapped in jail for indebtedness to the State. Later he applied for a job in the New World-possibly as paymaster of galleys in Cartagena, Colombia. He was turned down. Even after Don Quixote appeared (1605), Cervantes...
...Slow Burn. In Helsinge, Denmark, Jens Joergensen told the court that he was affronted 25 years ago, had been bolstering up his nerve ever since, finally went out and slapped his enemy, hefty Blacksmith Peter Svanum...
...sannyasis, who abstain from hair-cutting and hair-combing, the two emissaries wore their long hair properly matted and wound round their heads. Their naked chests and foreheads were streaked with sacred ash, blessed by Sri Amblavana. In an ancient Ford, the evening of Aug. 14, they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about 15 minutes. Another escort bore a large silver platter. On it was the pithambaram (cloth of God), a costly silk fabric with...