Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the stricken city, the jet made a slow, 1,500-ft.-high pass so that its passengers could assess the full extent of the disaster. At the airport, the President spoke in drizzling rain to a welcoming committee led by Mayor Victor H. Schiro and Governor John McKeithen. Pledging the full help of the Federal Government ("Human suffering and physical damage are measureless"), he set off on his tour...
...almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...
Developed by International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Videx is essentially an adaptation of the "slow-scan" process used in closed-circuit television and to send television pictures from space...
...first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines...
...rush for it right now, disagrees with the U.S. on how it should be achieved and what nations should carry it out. France's elegant, ambitious Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing pointedly did not meet Fowler at Orly Airport, and the talks got off to a slow start. After two days of discussion and some gastronomic milestones in Giscard's private dining