Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third, Hurley went to first on a fielder's choice and tried to steal second. Springfield catcher Kurt Ascherman threw the ball into center field to advance Hurley to third. Pete Varney grounded to Steitz, whose slow pick-up and bad throw to the plate allowed Hurley to slide home safely...
...result, housing, which has only recovered from the 1966 squeeze, seems certain to suffer again (see BUSINESS). Car sales may also slow down. But no one seems very alarmed. "I don't see any drastic reaction," says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "It just seems to confirm the view that this time the policymakers really mean business...
With the artificial heart in place, Cooley led these tubes out through the cut in Karp's chest wall. The heart-lung machine was switched off and the console switched on. At a slow-normal heart rate, the pump alternately sent a volume of carbon dioxide under pressure into sacs in the artificial heart to force blood out of the ventricles to the lungs and the rest of the body, then relaxed this pressure to let the heart refill with blood...
Large, big-shouldered and calmly slow of speech, Virginia-born Jack Beal does not consider his pensive portrayals of present-day odalisques as outright fantasy. Rather, he says, they are a reaction against the ephemeral daydreams he spun as a child in the orphanages to which he was periodically committed because both his parents (now dead) were Faulknerian alcoholics. "Southerners," says he, "can be terribly hung up on fantasies." Schooled in painting at the Chicago Art Institute, Beal builds his compositions as carefully as any Abstractionist-and the sofa or chair in his pictures is as important as the figures...
...TAKE was hard. Tim wanted Tommy to wait until there were two cars in front of him before he started down the highway. This created problems: sometimes passing drivers would see the camera and slow down to find out what was going on; or, if there was a car behind Tommy's jeep, there was a possibility of collision at the point when Tommy suddenly lurches into reverse. Meanwhile, the sun kept going in and out of the clouds, necessitating constant shifts in the lens setting...