Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dullest heavyweight championship fights in history, Cassius Clay toyed around with slow and aging Zora Folley for seven rounds last night, then knocked him out with a right...
...achieve the most striking dynamic effects without the least exaggeration or grotesquerie. He elicited a performance that was clear and enunciatorily precise even in the most complex fugal passages. He was also sensitive enough to maintain a continuous musical line and forward motion in spite of his deliberately slow pacing. Former math major or no, Adams is quite a musician. His Lacrymosa, even if most of the section is not Mozart's, was beatific...
...power to do-to implement the lottery scheme and some other proposals. Congress has until June 30 to renew and amend the draft law, and in so doing it may apply legislative controls to some areas in which the President now has sole jurisdiction. But Johnson's go-slow approach gives Congress time to make its views felt-and an opportunity to share any political consequences of major changes in the draft...
Dick Howe placed third in the mile with a creditable time of 4:16.7 on Cornell's relatively slow track. Army's Bob McDonald, who has run 4:04 this year, won in 4:13.1. Harvard's other individual placer was Ron Wilson, who finished fourth in the weight throw...
...Commission's decision to fix the year of maximum vulnerability at 19 is well informed. Any earlier and the draft would interfere with education in slow-paced slum schools; later, and men would have to interrupt their junior or senior year in college--the time when most schools ask a student to devote himself to his major field of study...