Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his son's death, Eisenhower returned to duty, burying his grief in work. The rewards were scarcely commensurate with the efforts. Ike's rise up the promotion ladder was painfully slow. In 1922, he was transferred to the Canal Zone?an inhospitable place in those days?where he became executive officer to Brigadier General Fox Conner, commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion. Next to Eisenhower's parents, Conner was probably the strongest influence in his life, introducing him for the first time to the serious study of military history and strategy. At West Point, Eisenhower remembered with distaste, this...
Abstract Heart. With earlier recognition, Helen might also have claimed another distinction. Anybody can see that abstract art is very pretty and decorative. What many were slow to understand is how any painting which does not have recognizable figures or objects in it can have any relation to reality, feeling or soul. Admittedly, this quality of feeling is difficult to derive from the impersonal, sometimes almost machine-tooled canvases of Louis or Noland. It is certainly there, but hidden, just as men make it a point of honor not to cry and to keep a stiff upper...
...Steve came out well in the fly, but his breaststroke and freestyle were a little bit slow compared to the rest of the field," Cahalan said...
THOUGH this bill sounds attractive to many on its face, in practice and in the long run it would tend to damage--no improve--the housing situation in Cambridge. The rate of increase of rents might slow but this slackening would not be universal, and it would be at the cost of a gradual dilapidating and stagnation of the City's housing stock...
...real problem in getting the team ready, and the reason for uncertainty about the team's prospects, is Briggs Cage. Due to the slow arrival of spring, the stickmen have been forced to dash around the famous Briggs dust, quite a different environment from the outdoors. "Everyone looks like an All-American in here," said the Crimson coach...