Word: slow
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They were allowed a total of two practice starts--no other warmup--by the starter (yes, he was in the boat which swamped Harvard's) who asked them sarcastically if they "intended to row." They did indeed as they proved in the heat, rowing cold and at an extremely slow cadence of 31 but still winning by 5.3 seconds over Princeton...
Back in the Berkshire Hilton awaiting the decision to postpone the races, Radcliffe, Princeton and Yale caroused around in interminably slow elevators, swapping shirts and "do-you-knows...
...wheel. The head of my Secret Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour as we approached the slope. When we reached the bottom, there was a squeal of rubber as he ... made...
...Gordonstoun and Timbertop helped mold the young Prince's sense of duty, Trinity College at Cambridge?his next stop, by family decree?opened up his personality. Charles is a slow but dogged study; his bachelor's degree from Trinity was only an undistinguished "second class, division two"?a sort of gentleman's C. But Lord Butler, master of Trinity, praised the student Prince for what was, in fact, a considerable accomplishment: he was the first member of the royal family ever to earn a degree. Not only had Charles taken time out for state visits abroad and his elaborate...
Bundy discussed the relative stability in the nuclear arms situation and noted the "slow horizontal proliferation" of atomic weaponry among nations over the last 30 years. "The Canadians, the Swedes, and the Swiss could have developed nuclear weapons" but chose not to for various political, moral and economic reasons, he said...