Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many a housewife, reveling in the luxury of several charge accounts around town which she has paid off desultorily, has been shocked to discover that her record as "slow payer" can follow her to whatever state she may move to-without giving her a chance to talk back. And as Katharine Hepburn recently complained, insurance companies had asked her: "What is your income, whom do you support, how much did your house cost, do you still menstruate, are your periods regular, your bowels, do you drink...
...rough near the 10th hole for a miserable triple-bogey seven that took him out of contention. The tournament be came Sanders, Thomas and Nicklaus, all tied at one under par. Sanders and Thomas finished early, with scores of 283, and sat around the clubhouse waiting for slow, methodical Jack. Out on the battlefield, Nicklaus slammed a perfect drive down the middle of the 17th fairway, then hit a magnificent iron to the green within 15 feet of the cup. Barely missing the putt for an eagle three, he settled for a birdie on the par-five hole. That...
...quit. A St. Louis teaching pro helped her work on her swing, moving her stance closer to the ball for more length and accuracy. She asked Mickey Wright to help with her putting; Mickey caught some minute flaws and dispensed some sisterly advice. "She gave me tips to slow me down," said Sandra, "little things like remembering to take a deep breath...
...little girls, and if life was mostly a carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall. They recall with remarkable clarity the sights and sounds of the bazaars, of steamer trips through the river jungle of the Ganges Delta, of the slow cycle of the Indian year, from Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, back again to the Moslem festival of Muharram. In a muted way there was tragedy, too. The sisters tell how Nitai, their meek sweeper, killed his beautiful daughter in a jealous rage after she moved in with Guru...
Moving steadily along what he found to be "an exceptionally sociable ocean" teeming with curious ships, Manry began to feel that he was along mainly for the ride. Tinkerbelle was slow-seven knots an hour top speed-but she was also uncapsizable and unsinkable. "I'm sure," he writes, "she could have crossed the ocean entirely on her own, without any help whatever from me." Manry fell overboard seven times, but since he was secured to Tinkerbelle by a lifeline, these adventures amounted to nothing more than unscheduled baths...