Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn of science and the rise of the merchant middle class changed the very meaning of patience. Observing, recording, experimenting-patiently piling their slow-baked bricks of knowledge into steps leading upward toward freedom and control of nature-the pioneers of science began to give patience a positive ring, a means to hope within the here and now. At the same time, the capitalists, gradually replacing the aristocracy at the top of society, were demonstrating what the patient, longview investment and reinvestment of money could do to liberate men from the conditions they were born to. Patience was no longer...
...Slow and Sure, and prosper then you must With Fame and Fortune, while you Try and Trust...
...McGuffey world. The patterns of patience and impatience are apt to be paradoxical. A businessman may want to rush to California in five hours and yet wait patiently for a delayed jet takeoff. A scientist may bolt instant coffee at a hurried breakfast and then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says...
Damus, a two-year letterman in sabre on the fencing team, finished the season strongly after a slow start. In the Eastern Championships at the close of the season he won six of 10 bouts in the sabre division, but just missed qualifying for the finals...
Both the ladies play revolutionaries touring Mexico as chanteuses in a vaudeville troupe. Much fuss is made over the coincidence of their both being named Marie, but it's never played for the Plautian confusions suggested when someone Anglicizes "Marie et Marie! Tres bon!" Eyes glinting in a slow, portentous fade...