Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family. It was love that I cried for that day. From that bed I wanted to reach out and hold hands with everyone I had ever known...I vowed I would get off of that futon and fight the leukemia again just to have the chance to slow down and to love. There is nothing more important or more powerful...
...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...
...certainly have to keep the score down and slow them up as much as possible," Mason said. "But Harvard has such excellent wings with so much speed they are hard to defend. We have to try to forecheck. We can't just let them keep the puck in front...
...aspirations. Dukakis is no dreamer. His visions run to high-speed trains from New York City to Boston, not spaceships to distant planets. Forever cerebral, he proved unable to reach into his gut to discover his emotions, the heartland of any political soul. For this cautious candidate, a man slow to anger and reluctant to laugh, the risk of exploration was too great. After nearly two years of campaigning, Dukakis remains essentially the same person as when he began. He has barely grown as a candidate. And growth is the least that Americans demand of a potential President...
SELECTED LETTERS OF EUGENE O'NEILL (Yale University; $35). He was the first American dramatist to win international acclaim. His private correspondence records his slow disenchantment with the footlights...