Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trains smell of dust and tobacco. There is hardly any view through their windows, they are fogged and dirty. All you can see are the fences and backyards of the slums of Providence and New Haven and Bridgeport through which the trains sneak slow and silent, like a scabby do in a Dostoevski story. And, in the aisle, an old man hawks the sandwiches and beverages. The sandwiches are larger than the toast bits served on planes, but they are also seventy-five cents and aged in Saran Wrap...
...piano, being backed up by Muddy Waters on bottleneck guitar and George Smith's harp, and the rest of the band. The mood created is mournful and sad, but determined. Spann's voice expresses the stoic posture so characteristic of the Blues; and his piano style is slow and shuffling as if expressing the long lonesome journey he is beginning in the song...
Because we began the entire program later than we ideally should have, any slow down was potentially detrimental. Eleven people would not have worked from June 6 to September 6 under these conditions unless these factors were operating, or, as I sometimes thought, we were sunstruck...
...there haven't been any busted lips or broken chairs for a couple of years since the town started shooting speed away from the Speedway.) Gayle was nice, she was going to be editor of the school yearbook. Unlike the Steak 'n' Shake crowd, she wasn't dying the slow death known as hanging around. In many ways she was patently nice, she was a girl back home. But I never thought of her that...
...feeling that inflation is inevitable may finally be giving way to a touch of welcome uncertainty. In Paris last week, Federal Reserve Board Governor Andrew F. Brimmer predicted that the economy's real growth, which reached 5% last year, would slow to a rate of 3% or less by the end of this year. But many other economists and corporate policymakers predict an appreciably higher-or lower-rate of growth. When opinions divide and uncertainty becomes widespread, decision makers begin to act with caution, holding back buying plans. That tends to retard economic growth and inflation...