Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been consulted, countered by winning a court injunction and $15,000 in fees for the right to drill. But the funds were under the control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and when the Tyonek village council tried to tap the account for needed improvements, the bureau was slow to respond. The Tyoneks were even more unhappy when the Interior Department in 1963 began soliciting bids for the long-range leasing of exploration rights on the reservation. Though the proceeds were to be held in escrow pending a decision as to whether the Indians legally owned the rights, Tyonek...
...Twisting. Unfortunately for that slow and easy philosophy, reunification fever is at a higher pitch in West Germany today than at any time since the war. Triggered by the proposed Red-neraustausch (speakers' exchange) between West German Social Democrats and East German Communists tentatively set for July 14, the fever was further heated by Christian Democrat Rainer Barzel's sweeping proposals for reunification in his "Unity Day" speech in New York (TIME, June 24). Barzel's concessions for reunification included leaving Soviet troops within a reconstituted Germany as a protection of Soviet interests in the "northern tier...
...otherwise slow-moving stock market last week, the shares of seven of the nation's twelve big airlines climbed to alltime peaks. The high-flying seven: United, TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, Northwest, Continental and Braniff. With air traffic racing 26% ahead of 1965, the industry's first-quarter revenues rose 21%. Last week Pan Am said that its passenger traffic so far this year was up 30%. TWA reported that its revenues in May grew 19.5%, compared with the same month last year. Fast-growing Continental Airlines' May passenger traffic rose 29% on domestic routes...
...describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...
...Terribly Boring. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and scrawny (160 Ibs.), Ryun runs with about as much style as a drunken sailor -head lolling, shoulders rotating. His pulse rate (about 70) is abnormally high for a miler, his breathing rate is unusually slow, and he is prone to dizzy spells caused by a malformed bone structure in his inner...