Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mandrake" McCandlish, armed with his usual combination of a slow fastball and a straight curve, came on in the ninth, striking out the first two challengers and finessing the third...
Running the third leg of the mile relay, Dave McKelvey slaughtered Dave Gialson of Princeton on the backstretch to give Harvard a lead it never lost. In the "slow" heat, Harvard pulled out the win by clocking a 3:14.1 -- .2 seconds better than Cornell's time in the second heat. The quartet of Frank Snowden (49.7), Shooter Haggerty (48.8), Dave McKelvey (47.5), and Jeff Huvelle (48.1) tied the Harvard record set last year in the Heps...
...freedom in general." Within the government, Opus Dei Cabinet ministers, all of them brilliant young technocrats, have been directly responsible for the sweeping economic reforms that brought Spain out of isolation and into prosperity. They have also been among the prime movers of the Franco regime's slow but unmistakable political liberalization...
Hoping to steer ailing American Motors Corp. back to health, Board Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. recently prescribed price cuts for his slow-moving Rambler American economy line. The first sales figures showed an encouraging upturn-and Chapin, dining in a Chicago restaurant, cheerily ordered strolling musicians to play Just in Time. The American's $1,839 base price - well under that of any other U.S. compact and only $200 more than the Volkswagen-has indeed helped tune up sales, which in April rose 8% over the same month last year, to 7,371 cars. Nevertheless, as of last...
...ready to present the President with a new Selective Service Act, there will be little left resembling the Marshall Commission's laudable recommendations for draft reform. All of the committee members' raging against Stokely Carmichael and all of their prattle about the First Amendment should not obscure the slow erosion of what once seemed a genuine attempt to improve the draft...