Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall we renounce any attempt to mediate? We shall not. The expectation of the Japanese people and of the world for a Japanese role in this matter is so high as not to permit renunciation. We are reaching the conclusion that the best way is, though it is slow and indirect, to build up politically and economically as a true power. We are certanily tired of being a "mock-up" of a major power...
While studying Mercury's surface temperatures, Soter paused to consider the effects of the planet's elliptical orbit, which causes it to speed up as it nears its closest approach (28.7 million miles) to the sun, and to slow down as it moves away to a maximum distance of 43.6 million miles. About four days before Mercury comes closest to the sun, Soter says in the current issue of Sky and Telescope, its increased angular velocity around the sun just matches its rotational rate about its own axis. To an observer on Mercury, the sun at this point...
Progress in transplanting human organs other than the kidney has been disappointingly slow, not only because of rejection reactions but also because of technical difficulties in surgery. Last week surgeons at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis were anxiously watching the progress of the first patient to receive a triple transplant-kidney, pancreas and duodenum...
Britain's Bulldog picks up the lady's scent when she arrives in London to collect her fee from the late magnate's chief competitors. She offers him a cigar; this time it is too slow on the draw, and Drummond tails her to a rendezvous with her boss, the inevitable master criminal. In his previous incarnations, Carl Petersen was presented as a fiend "whose inhuman calm acted on Drummond like a cold douche"; in this film, he is introduced as an Oilfinger (Nigel Green) who extorts a tribute of terror from the big petroleum cartels...
...been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full of problems. As a result, Monro must retract some and allow others to slide to a slow death. At times, they make him appear foolish. But some of them dowork, and the suggestion of others prompt reactions...