Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inexcusably Slow." But most of Congress was not listening. Rather, it was reading a heavy volume of mail from frightened white constituents who, understandably, want protection. Thus a House bill providing $300 million to aid cities to improve riot-control techniques attracted conservative and liberal support, while the Senate, by a 45-to-43 vote, reduced the appropriation for the Teachers Corps from $33 million to $18 million...
...Administration seemed ambivalent. Hubert Humphrey spoke out forcefully in Boston and Detroit against Congress' "inexcusably slow" action this year on domestic measures and demanded bold new programs to ease the ghettos' anguish. But in Washington, Johnson - who displayed passionate eloquence in defense of Negroes when civil rights was a more popular cause - blandly observed that Congress "has carefully evaluated the situation in the nation as it sees it." Explained one Administration official: "Congressmen who are elected by white middle-class voters are in real trouble with our programs...
...Israelis' side of the war 14 hours a day on Arabic broadcasts over Radio Kol Israel. On shows such as The Truth and the Lie, old tapes of Nasser, Syria's Attassi and other Arab leaders are juxtaposed with recent statements. And now Israel, which has been slow to supply tele vision entertainment for its own citizens, has started a crash program to get an Arabic TV station in service. For the Arabs have long been avid TV fans; many more sets can be found in the conquered territories than in Israel...
...tons more than Cana da's de Havilland Caribou, the largest operational STOL-type transport. At 270 m.p.h., it also flies faster than any helicopter and has a greater maximum range: 500 miles. Developed as a mil itary assault transport, it can land fully loaded at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h...
...including major ones--during previous seasons of the Festival, she never turned in anything but a praise-worthy job. Miss Nye is young and beautiful--and Lady Macbeth may properly be the same. But Miss Nye is just not Lady Macbeth. For one thing, her vocal tempo is absurdly slow. She is constantly given to internal pauses, often between every two words of a sentence. As a result we hear each sound she makes (though "Out, damned spot!" requires four syllables, not three), but the sounds seldom add up to convincing discourse. She indulges in elocution rather than elucidation...