Word: slow
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Saddam Hussein must have known that the Republican Guard could not stop the advance of the U.S. military on Baghdad, but he might have imagined it could slow the onslaught. As U.S. forces swept through Iraq from Kuwait, the Iraqi command deployed four divisions--the Baghdad, Medina, Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi--south of the capital in two defensive arcs. The outer arc, about 100 miles long, stretched roughly from Karbala to Kut. The inner one, some 30 miles long, extended from Yusufiyah to Suwayrah. Just how many troops this involved is unclear. On paper, each of the four divisions had roughly...
...course, there would be no point to a Matrix game in which you couldn't dodge bullets in slow motion while the camera sweeps around you. You don't have to be a trigger-twitching teen to play: simply press a button, and time slows down, allowing you to deliver martial-arts moves and avoid being strafed at a more middle-aged pace...
Freshman Anne Hillier placed third in the 400 in 56.21 seconds after being relegated to the seventh lane due to her relatively slow qualifying time...
...train of her dress trailed nearly 50 yards behind her—almost to Johnston Gate, where half an hour earlier she had started her slow-motion walk toward a stage set up in front of the John Harvard statue...
...part, Zoninsein had to avoid looking at friends who yelled out in support—as she maintained an even, slow pace while others hurried...