Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressively Broad. His most immediate challenge is to slow his rivals, and the Humphrey camp seemed to be succeeding. Last week his backers announced formation of United Democrats for Humphrey. The sponsors included an impressively broad geographic and factional cross section of party leaders and allies-broader than any that either Kennedy or McCarthy has been able to construct...
...pose had a certain drama about it. But the noisy dispute over a site where American and North Vietnamese negotiators could meet for preliminary talks recalled what the late John Foster Dulles said in 1954 about negotiating with Asian Communists: "Progress is always slow and seldom spectacular...
...electric current through the grid floor for five seconds, giving them a painful jolt. When the gate was lifted, the rats usually were only too happy to return to the lighted box. The procedure was repeated five times a day for eight days, enough to give even the most slow-witted rat a fear of the dark...
BRENDA LEE, diminutive in stature, stands head and shoulders above everyone else on the distaff side of the rock picture. Since she recorded Jambalaya as a 12-year-old, she has simply overpowered every song that has come her way. Her big voice is best in the slow numbers like I'm Sorry and Losing You, but her delicately-wielded heavy bass is just as characteristic in the rockers--Dum, Dum, Sweet Nothins, That's All You Gotta Do--in which she employs another trademark, her non-piercing screams...
...year-old McGill, widely known as "the Voice of Reason in the South," embodies several of the disparate elements that make up this New South. His penetrating, almost colorless eyes and bristle gray hair suggest the Mountain South; the mellow courtesy and the slow, hypnotic cadence of the careful storyteller recall the Cotton South; his easy humor and fascination with historical minutiae bespeak the Southern Culture which has always been more a potential than a reality...