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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Descriptions like "long, slow harmonic motion" and "a little scrawny but innovative and skillful" were among the tamer of the remarks...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: MIT Women Rate Sex Mates in Article | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

...enter anyone in the 880-yard run, so Sarah Robinson, Debbie Hess and Joan Hart had an easy time of it. Robinson won with a slow...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Radcliffe Track Annihilates UNH | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...like the fiddler crabs that live in the marsh. Amidst the dust swirling up to the whirling blades of police helicopters hovering above, the demonstrators poured over the parking lot. They clapped and cheered as they saw a second line of demonstrators moving inland from the sea like a slow subway train. Stopping about every 70 yards, they seeded their path with Indian corn. A third group, coming from the north, made a stone walkway across the marsh, scattering the rocks after they had passed in order to leave no mark...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Civil Disobedience at Seabrook | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...analyzes American affairs and advises the Kremlin, was spreading the word in Washington that the upcoming improvements were more worrisome to him than the advanced U.S. ICBM-the M-X- which still exists only on paper, or the cruise missile, which has yet to be deployed and is too slow to be used in a surprise attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Zeroing in on the Silo Busters | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...principle behind the process has been known for decades. The biggest problem that held the system in the labs was the film's slow reaction to light. Polaroid's scientists, however, found a way to speed it up to an acceptable ASA (American Standards Association) rating of 40, adequate for moviemaking outdoors by daylight or indoors with a small floodlight. Land wants to market Polavision with sound, and the film shown at last week's meeting had an unused magnetic sound track, but Land is not satisfied with the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: At Long Last, Land's Instant Movies | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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