Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's unlikely the bombing campaign will physically slow down his campaign to build weapons of mass destruction", said retired Army Lt. Gen. J. Terry Scott, director of the national security program at the Kennedy School of Government(KSG). "Anything he's got that's vital is deep underground right...
Wilson said discussions involving the future of a 119-year-old institution must move at a slow and deliberate pace...
Like many prophets to come, Moses is reluctant to take up the burden. "I have marked well the plight of my people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry," announces God. "I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians." Moses responds with excuses and conditions: "I am slow of tongue and slow of speech." This line caused some religious scholars to assume Moses stuttered; others inferred a more serious speech impediment. "Who am I," he asks, to help undertake this mission? And who, exactly, is God to ask it? "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh," replies the deity, which has been...
...soon discover how awkward I am on this kind of walk: if Mittermeier is Tarzan, me Jane's grandmother. I stumble frequently and cut my hand on a rock, but eventually I turn clumsiness to my advantage by forcing everyone to slow down. I am seeing the jungle for the first time. Here alone are 300 species of trees. They are at once the pillars and the superintendents of the rain forest, the frame of the house and its chief occupants. The spiny understory palm trees make baskets from branches growing out of their trunks, which become compost machines...
Although Anastasio and McConnell jammed for most of the night, drummer John Fishman controlled the pulse of the audience and led everyone on the musical journey. Fishman seemed to know just when to intensify but, more importantly, when to slow things down if mass hysteria seemed to be threatening the 16,000-odd people filling the Centrum. Phish is more raw in the late nineties than ever before, and their jams tend to be faster and more rock-based than in the past. However, they have retained the ability to direct the mood of the audience. From the first furious...