Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their thunderous noise, the finely tuned machines soon began to show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
...world crisis called for quick action and the Western powers were in a slow-motion saunter...
...Pauker, too, had spent some years in Rumanian prisons. There she had been able to read, study and organize clandestine Communist cells. Rumanian prisons now afforded no opportunities for students and plotters, only slow starvation, tuberculosis, typhus...
...next moment, listeners all over the U.S. heard father's voice. Father said: "I'm going to let you have it in the belly, see, so you can bleed to death nice and slow...
...State College of Washington, Dr. Orlin Biddulph is feeding radioactive iron to plants, to observe their slow and intricate circulatory systems...