Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost (about $10,000 for a medium-sized state) by swelling the campaign war chest. Says Nixon: "When the polls go good for me, the cash register really rings." On the other hand, a candidate does not want to appear to be a shoo-in, lest his campaign workers slow down and his voters stay home on Election Day. The art of selective leaking is to make it appear that the candidate's strength is steadily rising but always slightly below the expected margin of victory. In the New Hampshire primary, for example, Nixon said that he would...
...Paris talks were not the only slow, stubborn peace negotiations going on in the world last week...
Then on May 7, only hours after he had turned in the second fastest lap in Speedway history. Mike Spence was killed in a freak accident while testing teammate Greg Weld's turbine. The next day Weld, who had been slow all month, was released by STP, and Granatelli was left with 1966 winner Graham Hill, and four turbine cars...
Some have been found to speed up or to slow heart rate, to raise or lower blood pressure, to control deposits of fat inside blood vessels, or to change nervous activity in the brain. And present studies are testing their capability in birth control and the ability to withstand stress...
Specific applications as drugs may be slow in coming. Almost 30 years lapsed after the discovery of the steroids before the first major steroid-based drugs were produced. Corey said he felt it is likely that certain diseases do result from an imbalance of the hormones, and that artificial prostaglandins might be able to control them...