Word: slow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week a ten-member, blue-ribbon committee headed by Utilities Executive William H. Draper Jr. reported to President Eisenhower on the need for the U.S. to step up, not slow down, its military aid to its allies in the cold...
Later in the Laughton version, Lear's return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened. Every gesture showed a man returning to reality, to learning, understanding, forgiveness, until he is himself forgiven...
...their association wjth the World Council. They look with suspicion on the Protestant passion for missions, which they see as a potential peril to themselves, are wary of the proposed merger of the World Council and the International Missionary Council. Said Alexandria's Metropolitan Parthenios of Carthage: "Go slow. I don't know why I fear this, but I fear...
Lithe and lightfoot under the bright summer sun, the matador waited impatiently while the banderillas were planted. Then, with a series of spectacular redondos, slow, cape-twirling passes that prolonged the moment of peril, he prepared his bull for the kill. From the high-banked tiers of the arena at Málaga, Spaniards cracked out their drumfire oles. "Si!" his fans shouted at Luis Miguel Dominguin, "tú, el primero [yes, you're the best...
...taxes will increase federal fund allocations to the states to $1.8 billion in fiscal 1961, and $2 billion in fiscal 1962. Even so, the 1961-62 total will fall $600 million short of the $4.4 billion originally programmed for both years, is expected to slow the building schedule by six months. But the very fact that cash is ready to flow again will permit the states to resume contract awards, give a fresh lift to the construction industry in the next few months...