Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armstrong Circle Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Slow Assassination: Per on v. La Prensa, dramatization of the conflict between the Argentine dictator and the great Buenos Aires daily...
...Biller began another long wait. The chamber pressure equaled that of 60 ft. below sea level; he would have to stay in the tiny (4 ft. 10 in. wide, 9 ft. 11 in. long) tank for the long, slow decompression cycle to bring him back to the earth's atmosphere. He sat there with the dead man's body for the rest of the night, then all through the next day and the next night, and into early hours of the following morning. He slept a few fretful moments on his tiny bench. Once or twice he whistled...
Snead, meanwhile, was slowing down. He was still flirting with par, but behind Ford's hot-handed game, par was not going to be good enough. Doug Ford shot not a single bogey; he had five birdies on his scorecard when he stepped to the 18th tee. His drive was straight, but he found his approach shot buried all but out of sight in a green-protecting trap. Now, if ever, he had an excuse to change his pace, to slow down and study his lie. He knew better. He walked into the sand, barely looked at the ball...
That the Pirates of Penzance still manages to be generally entertaining is a tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan and some enthusiastic cast members, prodded along by excellent music direction and choreography. The plot itself moves along pretty jauntily, becoming seat-squirmingly slow in a few patches when the dialogue or the sentiment gets to be too much...
...total scope of knowledge increases, the problem of man's willingness and capacity to broaden himself in relation to these increases is of major importance. Oppenheimer pointed out that most learning processes of a scholastic nature tend to slow down greatly after one's formal education is over, and often it is only the shock of an A-bomb explosion, for instance, which makes one aware of the tremendous changes in our modern physics...