Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennsylvania (74) : 38 pledged to Stevenson, with the possibility that Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor Dave Lawrence can increase his total to 60. The other 14 are swayed by Philadelphia's noncommittal Democratic City Chairman William Green, who has urged that Pennsylvania go slow on Stevenson...
...Ewing and Donn, is that the earth's poles are where they are. The South Pole is in the middle of a continent, and the North Pole is in the middle of the small Arctic Ocean, which is almost entirely surrounded by land. This setup is like a slow-responding thermostat that keeps the earth alternating between glacial and interglacial periods...
...Colorado Springs and turned it into a national headquarters and free vacation spot for Navigators. But Daws Trotman did not rest; he got up early to pray and read and stayed up late to talk to would-be converts, until a heart ailment several years ago forced him to slow down and take more than his customary five hours' sleep...
None of the Milwaukee's management seemed worried by the possibility that Lannan's group might take over. One of the busiest buyers and sellers of companies in the U.S., Pat Lannan, 51, specializes in buying into slow-rolling but potentially good companies and stepping up their lagging profits...
...Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps on landing, increase lift and slow the plane to around 115 m.p.h. for carrier landings...