Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story begins slowly. The author tries too hard to achieve a sense of ominous anticipation from various people's warnings and premonitions. Manchester approaches Dallas and the underpass near the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building at an excruciatingly slow pace and with innumerable sidetrips. But then the horrendous drama takes hold of the reader all over again. It is not so much that Manchester's details bring new significance to the event; it is rather that the event itself seems to infuse even the most unimportant detail with meaning...
...that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter, and once crash-landed his one-engine Tiger Moth on a mountain. Although he is in good health, his doctors have warned him to slow down...
Before bombing commences, continued the Economist, the target is pinpointed by observers, who "reconnoiter the area for hours in slow-flying aircraft, often at great personal risk. If there is a possibility of hitting civilians, the whole thing is usually called off." In some areas of the Mekong Delta that have been declared "friendly," U.S. patrol boats are forbidden to return enemy fire for fear of hitting civilians. B-52 bombers, used only in full-scale open fighting, are electronically controlled and have a "remarkable" degree of accuracy. "The picture is reasonably clear," concluded the Economist. "Perhaps never before...
...receives 21. She is cool. At noon, Blitman, his head ringing, gets up to go to French 125. He leaves a nickel tip for both of them. The University Restaurant is one of the few Harvard eating places where you should leave a tip. But the service is miserably slow--the nickel is plenty...
...When I was ready, I crouched at the goal line in my track shoes and sweat pants. He stood at the 40 and started his watch at my first movement. When I trotted back I saw a surprised look on his face. 'Was I really that slow?' I asked. 'You better run it again,' he said as he started at his stop watch. 'I caught you in 4.5. That's the fastest I've ever timed anyone.' I tried to say that I'd just as soon not do it again, but he insisted. He caught me in 4.5 again...