Word: slow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South America as a spokesman for the cause. This was hard work for sleep-loving Ferhat Abbas, who likes to get to bed before 9 every night, already wonders how he will hold his head up at evening functions if he ever becomes head of a genuine Algerian state. Slow as he had been to join the rebellion, Abbas still possessed an asset of incalculable value to the F.L.N.-the most respected name in Algerian politics. Three weeks ago, when the rebels proclaimed formation of a government in exile, everyone agreed that "Papa" Abbas was the logical choice for Premier...
...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
...Hanover, New Haven, Princeton, and some even come to Cambridge; others remain on the campus to entertain visitors. The switchboard in every dormitory is tied up for the entire afternoon, and the living room is full to over-flowing. A mad flurry of excitement pervades the scene, and the slow week-day pace quickens in preparation for the holiday...
...slow-rolling middle-price range, Ford has lengthened Mercury's wheel base 4 in. The car will move out during November, much sleeker, with less chrome than the '58 Mercury. There will be 35% more window space; instrument panels have been moved forward 6 in. for greater legroom. Ford's Edsel and Lincoln will get minor facelifts. About December the company will bring out a hybrid Ford with the body of a Fairlane and the roof of a Thunderbird. Called the Galaxy, it will sell for somewhat more than the '58 Fairlanes, which ranged from...
...coed Washington University, Fannie did not participate in "the 'spooning' that I had reason to suspect went on between students." Instead she wrote blank verse. Visiting Manhattan with her father, Fannie looked down from a hotel window and saw her future. People, she remembers, were "flowing like slow molasses, yet full of heartbeat and fear and hope and power and-infinity. Those people down there were composed of persons." She would have to live in New York, find the persons among the people, glaze them with her words...