Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over 400,000, the News feels, its paper could be printed at 20% less cost than the short-lived World Journal Tribune. The News has faster, more modern presses than the WJT and is more centrally located in Manhattan. The city's big retailers, however, are remarkably slow to advertise in any untried medium; many are happy enough with the morning New York Times, the afternoon Post and the surrounding suburban papers. Running, on the average, some 30 pages fatter since the demise of the WJT, the Post feels more impregnable than ever. Despite forecasts of imminent death...
Senator McCarthy bared his ribs with reluctance; he had been planning to go to Viet Nam instead. But his slow-starting challenge* to Johnson needed the thrust of a New Hampshire confrontation, hazardous though it is. Governor John King and Senator Thomas McIntyre are heading a write-in campaign for Johnson. Moreover, a write-in effort for Robert Kennedy could fragment the anti-L.B.J. vote that McCarthy hopes to capture. In another show of pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause...
Elegiac Worst. With the onset of World War II, "the smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...
...other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers and other new technologies, B.B.C. continues to improve the old ones. A recent B.B.C. breakthrough in rotor-blade design will permit its American Electric turbines to use low-pressure, nuclear-fired steam and turn at a slow 1,800 r.p.m. while producing as much power as conventional turbines spinning twice as fast...
...Eastern television Saturday Princeton broke up Penn's slow down by shooting 80 per cent from the floor in the first half and went on to an easy 73-47 decision. Tiger captain Joe Heiser and 6-9 center Chris Thomford paced...