Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who greeted him fulsomely as the results became clear. Fully 80.8% of the nation's 5,290,000 registered voters went to the polls-many more than the scant 50% that U.S. observers had cautiously predicted. It was a beginning in the slow, arduous process of building a democracy in a nation racked...
Nonetheless, ballistic-wound experts testified that it was "probable" that Exhibit 399 had hit both men. One reason: the wound in Connally's back was oddly large, suggesting that the bullet had begun to wobble and slow down before it struck-presumably because it had just passed through the President's neck. Also, the injury in Connally's wrist was such, said the doctor who treated him, that Exhibit 399 had apparently begun to tumble end over end when it emerged from his chest and that it crashed blunt-end first into his wrist. There was some...
...school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring, he finally got the hang of a fast slider that starts out like an ordinary fastball then breaks...
...voted against anti-riot legislation proposed by a Florida G.O.P. Congressman. Many who support the Vietnam war, yet oppose escalating food prices, are willing to see reduced government spending take the form of cuts in the poverty program -- then they have warned the increasingly militant Negro minority to "go slow...
...revolving set (designed by Clayton Koelb) pushed by Woyzeck and other characters in changing from scene to scene. At worst, the unpolished mechanics of the revolve made for some visually awkward scene transitions in the first act. But most of the time, especially when Woyzeck did the pushing, the slow turning of the set neatly captured the hopelessness of Woyzeck's life...