Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...material, labor, and manufacturing costs set basic prices, which, in turn, are marked up as goods flow towards shops and consumers. Business men and farmers are well aware of this. But, with unholy naivete, they still hope to sense the imminent price crash in time to slow down or temporarily halt production, having squeezed enough profits out of exorbitant prices to tide them over. This gamble lay behind the NAM's successful war against the OPA last year, and it is this same gamble that seems dangerously close to being lost in the near future...
...drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling...
...also opened the scoring in the third inning, Larry Falloni doubled along the right-field foul line, stole third base, and tallied on Espanet's fly to Walt Coulson. The Varsity, which had all kinds of trouble with Snow's slow, left-handed offerings, tied the count in the seventh on singles by Bill Barron, Bill Hamlen, and Lenny Lunder, the last named a pinch hitter for John Coppinger...
...fairways soggy, and the greens leave something wanting. The unwary golfers is as likely as not to be hit on the skull by someone shooting into him from behind, and some afternoons a crowd of little boys comes out from a local high school to slow things up terribly. Add to this a group of urchins who pop out from behind bushes to sell balls and another who chase little girls about, and you have some idea of the general confusion...
Imagine the great Election night when it is discovered that the 48 states are deadlocked in a sort of Hayes-Tilden stalemate. It is the 49th State of the Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola...