Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yard individual medley, Penn's Charles Wigo beat Steve Teaford a slow 2:13.3, and came back in the 100-yard backstroke to whip Al Lincoln in mediocre time, emerging as the only double winner of the afternoon...
...almost glacial calm, Rusk considers diplomacy a slow, dull business-and he is grateful that it is. "Let's not have too much excitement these days," he observes. "It's too damn dangerous." Addressing a group of State Department visitors last week, he counseled: "Reserve judgment to a degree until you dig into the heart of a problem. Glandular reactions are not good enough any more." He is uncharacteristically cutting toward "these third-party amateurs who are so busy trying to mediate the Viet Nam war," mostly without any suspicion that hundreds of existing diplomatic channels have been...
...Tigers have good big men in 6-6 Ed Hummer and 6-9 Robbie Brown and a fine guard in Gary Walters Princeton plays the style of basketball that Coach Floyd Wilson would probably love to see the Crimson use. They have an agonizingly slow attack, and are willing to wait and wait for good shot. Princeton would have to have a miserable night -- as they did last month -- for the Crimson to pull an upset...
Various theoretical arguments can be raised against this tendency, but practical considerations are more to the point. In an era when the pace of social as well as technological change seems to be accelerating at a geometrical rate, the Congress tends to grind exceeding slow. The hyperactive 89th Congress is atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed...
...four-year term would make Congress more responsive to a need for social change; indeed it would only freeze in office for a longer period what might again be an unresponsive Congress. The two-year term is certainly not responsible for putting racists in Congress or for creating a slow-moving body...