Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, while the offense was on the sidelines muttering about the frustrating events of the day, the Big Green defense was busy keeping the ship afloat, hoping for some sparks of life. Those sparks were slow to come, though kicking specialist Nick Lowery did provide the Hanover crowd with something to cheer about as the second quarter drew to a close...
Field Day. In fact, nobody has really had a field day over the finds yet. Fearing that Syria might take exception to the biblical aspects of the discoveries and hamper further exploration, the Italian archaeologists have been slow to publicize their discoveries. But the international community of archaeologists and biblical scholars has heard enough already to begin murmuring with excitement. Matthiae and Pettinato will arrive in the U.S. this month for a speaking tour. Whatever they reveal, it cannot be all. The Italians have excavated only a few of the 140 acres that once were Ebla. It may take...
...link in the pipeline before the long Alaska winter sets in. Working through the rapidly shortening arctic autumn days and, under portable arc lamps, far into the lengthening night, the men slogged through ankle-deep mud to set the last 40-ft. lengths of pipe in place. It was slow, hazardous work, hampered by howling winds, rock slides and blowing snow. Drawled one grizzled pipeliner, "This here Thompson Pass, she's a frozen hell...
...only black American to possess such precise details about his ancestry. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Haley's memorial to that past. After twelve years of research and writing, delays and financial crises, the book is finally out. Yet it moves like a deep, slow-moving river that has always been there. For those who are unable or unwilling to read its 587 pages, Roots has been made a twelve-part TV series scheduled to begin next January. As America's answer to Britain's Upstairs, Downstairs, the TV version of Roots, like...
...looks as if he might scream if forced to make one more stereotypical gay gesture), but only because she does not appear sharp enough to figure out that neither the picture nor her character are going anywhere while she and Trintignant argue about how to pronounce "Boston". Though somewhat slow on the uptake, Bisset is of course beautiful, as the film in typical if unsubtle manner reminds us, by flashing a bare-assed shot of Bisset once all the action is over, as if to propitiate the audience...