Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youngstown, Ohio, the permanent dirty haze in the air and the oily filth in the slow-running Mahoning River have long spelled money. For 85 years, Youngstown has prided itself on being the quintessential steel city, the capital of "America's Ruhr Valley" and more heavily dependent on this one industry for jobs than any other town of the same size. But now Youngstowners-and even more the citizens of neighboring Campbell and Struthers-live with a nightmare that the air will one day soon be clean and fish will again swim in the Mahoning. Last week Youngstown Sheet...
...Slow Starter...
...Americans were deluding ourselves with the notion that cancer was killing us, when it was cancerphobia instead!! Anyhow, when the Food Services were contacted last week and pressed to identify the author of this gratuitous swill, a spokesperson said, "No one wrote it." It seems that it was a slow summer in the Feedback mailroom, and so the Big Codfish and Ms. Knish were instructed to come up with a page of meaningful filler for the upcoming Registration Issue...
...Vegas and Toots Shors' Bar haven't placed their bets against Ali. They have heard that Ali is fat, and slow, and that a washed-up heavyweight named Jimmy Ellis floored him twice in sparring sessions...
Neither Larry Brown nor Burke St. John had much help, of course. The weather was bad enough to slow the best of offenses and the Crimson offensive line was completely overpowered by the Minuteman behemoths...