Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD). Often suicidal, almost invariably foiled, the attacks nonetheless offered proof that Ho Chi Minh was determined and able to go on fighting while talking. It meant that, as in Korea, many more men would have to face the particularly bitter fate of dying while excruciatingly slow negotiations are trying to find...
When a group of medical students asked who would pay for the additional social services for the poor that Kennedy proposes, he shot back "You!" In Redondo Beach, Calif., he told an audience of aerospace workers: "We can slow down the race to the moon." At Oregon State University, in response to a student who favored "going in and getting the Pueblo crew out," Kennedy suggested: "It's not too late to enlist...
Over the Shoulders. At times, Mishima's single-pattern plot seems to glide in slow, repetitive cycles, freezing faces in glaring expressions like kabuki actors: frenzied passion, cross-eyed frustration. Still, what keeps the novel from being another existentialist dead end is the presence of the author. It is finally not the hang-ups of his characters but the questions Mishima asks about them that fascinate-including the ultimate, curiously Japanese question that his novel tests for itself: Can obsession with death, pushed to an extreme, result in some absolute awareness of life...
...Washington, but he stands to lose considerably if Kennedy runs a string of primary victories that crush McCarthy's candidacy soon. Humphrey's standing above the primaries while Kennedy and McCarthy slug it out is sound strategy only so long as McCarthy keeps slugging. If McCarthy cannot slow Kennedy's pace, Humphrey will have to fight more vigorously to pick up delegates in the nonprimary states and to maintain a creditable standing in public-opinion polls. The Vice President began testing a rhetorical weapon last week-the phrase "New Democracy"-that may become his equivalent...
...Death," runs the old insurance man's gag, "is nature's way of telling you to slow down." The joke is the cinematic principle of this catatonic, corpse-cluttered western, which comes as close as a film can to a still picture...