Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Recruiting is another Holtz specialty. He signed up twelve of the top 100 high school All-Americas for this year. "The last couple of years, I've recruited for speed," says Holtz. "We've sometimes been a step or two slow. But now we have people like Ismail, who can do 40 ((yds.)) in 4.28 seconds." The Wilkes-Barre, Pa., freshman is possibly the fastest receiver in the country...
...then singing several explicitly political songs on such topics as apartheid, Vietnam and nuclear war (this last in a song dedicated onstage to George Bush). But Cliff's polemics were delivered with such good nature and such energy that one could not help but dance. Even in the slow songs, Cliff's energy came streaming through, in the sweat running down his face and in a voice that soared to the rafters...
Young and Restless: Known for his slow starts in the goal-scoring column, Young broke the ice early this season--tallying twice in Friday's opening game against Yale. An assist the following night gave Young a weekend total of three points, one shy of sophomore Peter Ciavaglia's team-high four...
...inundated St. Mark's Square in nearly 4 ft. of water and pounded the facade of its revered basilica. But Venetians have come to accept periodic flooding -- acqua alta (high water), they call it -- as a way of life, while city officials and the Italian government have been slow to realize that Venice's artistic and architectural treasures are in grave danger...
...soon. For the past several hundred years Venice has been sinking -- 9 in. this century alone -- because of geological shifts in the region and the draining of freshwater wells in and around the city. Although experts believe the sinking has stopped, the city faces an equally threatening development: the slow rise of the Adriatic, largely as a result of a global warming trend that is causing the world's oceans and seas to expand gradually...