Word: slow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People Are Looking." With the immemorial necessity of "Outs" in all campaigns, the Democrats were reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington...
...global game of personal diplomacy, President Eisenhower was slow to play the U.S.'s ace-himself. As the world's most popular political leader, he is also the U.S.'s most effective ambassador. Last week Ike announced an historic presidential diplomatic mission. He will swing for 19 days and 19,500 miles through nine nations of Southern Europe and Southern Asia, centering on the Western summit meeting in Paris, Dec. 19. Said he: There will not be "a great deal of time for dallying along...
...since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged off, saying his sister had tried to teach him to dance long ago, but "my legs just wouldn't move properly." The music was rather slow and dignified, the polkas, waltzes and 19th century Russian ballroom dances that the Czar's court once favored. President Kliment Voroshilov forgot his 78 years to sail off across the floor with Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of the ruling Presidium. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flashed gaily around with...
...some 50 members of the audience, who left during the first act, Jenufa was apparently still too bleak to take. But those who stayed let loose with a volley of bravos for the cast and brilliant Yugoslav Conductor Lovro Von Matacic. It looked as if Composer Janacek, in his slow and tortuous way, might at last be winning the audience that had so long eluded...
...takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN OF LITTLE EDUCATION AND INFANTILISM...