Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit for farmers and ranchers, feed for cattle, funds to slow erosion), promised that the Federal Government would be a "willing partner" with local and state authorities "in solving this problem, which I assure you we will solve...
...Partners. This slow, bespectacled chief of the world's most feudalistic autocracy is a curious associate for the West's greatest democracy. Saud is responsible to no parliament or council, and no Saudi is allowed a vote. The King's air-conditioned palaces rise in a land where one in every three citizens is still a nomad living in black tents and using camel urine for hair dressing, and only five out of 100 have enough education even to write their own names...
...inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...Slow Start...
...mile relay, the Crimson was unable to offset a disastrously slow first leg by Bob Weil, who passed off to Bill Thompson nearly a half lap behind first-running Yale. Thompson made up a little of this deficit, but neither Dave Spinney nor Dave McLean could close...