Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British banks, coupled with a loss of Commonwealth preferences on tobacco and sugar, could have crushing effects on the Rhodesian economy. But since the crops are already sold for this year, and since Rhodesia can expect financial support from racist South Africa, the effects of economic sanctions would be slow in making themselves felt. Still worse, France (which has picked up the South African arms trade dropped by Britain and the U.S.) and Japan appear eager to enter into the commercial void...
Pathetic Absolution. Sherm also had standards, grandly banished any of those guilty of incurring his displeasure. At one time or another the banished list included Humphrey Bogart, who told Billingsley, "You stink," New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, who published an unflattering profile of W.W., Josephine Baker, who complained about slow service and had the added disadvantage of being a Negro, and Jackie Gleason, whom Sherm declared "a drunken...
...Britain's Graham Hill, 36: the U.S. Grand Prix, on a rain-slicked, 2.3-mile circuit that held his B.R.M. racer to a relatively slow 107.98 m.p.h. average; at Watkins Glen, N.Y. One of the early dropouts (only three of 18 cars lasted the full 110 laps) was World Champion Jimmy Clark, whose engine started acting up in the fifth lap, leaving the rest of the race to Hill, who, despite one scary 100-m.p.h. spinout on a curve, managed to set a 115.16 m.p.h. lap record on the way to his third straight victory at the Glen...
Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...