Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against aerial attacks, they mounted heavy artillery atop the city's tallest buildings, and drove barbed stakes into open fields as protection against paratroopers. They even put nozzles on oil pipelines, converting them into instant flamethrowers. As a result, the Nigerian forces were forced to take a painstakingly slow route overland from the eastern seaport of Calabar, lugging tons of military supplies and hundreds of cases of "Star"-brand lager beer...
...light flashes just about half as often. The conferees were beginning to ponder this new information when a tardy University of California astronomer, David Cudaback, still bleary-eyed from long nights at the Lick Observatory, arrived with word that the light flashes are inexplicably irregular: they speed up or slow down by as much...
Convalescence, once a slow and leisurely period, keeps getting shorter. For highly practical reasons, surgeons continue to cut down the time their patients spend recuperating in the hospital. For one thing, the faster a patient goes home, the less likely he is to pick up a secondary infection from others in the hospital. For another, home atmosphere is considered more conducive to healing in many cases. Most pressing these days is the scarcity of hospital beds. The shorter the average hospital stay, the faster a bed becomes available to others...
...woman infertile for as long as three months. In conventional pill form, the drug is effective for short terms (women take the pills for 20 days, then stop to permit menstruation). In its injection form, the drug's effect is greatly prolonged by the muscle's slow release of the chemical...
What's all the rush? Slow down, let's wait...