Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentration on exporting its dollars, tools and advice to the postwar world, the U.S. has been slow and a little timid about exporting its culture. But now culture is catching up with the atomic cannon, the dam builders, the agricultural advisors and the diplomats...
Full Safe. There was no doubt that the money pinch was real. Chicago's big commercial banks were slow to take on new borrowers, were only lending to prime risks. At a Pennsylvania Bankers Association meeting, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. felt called upon to defend his policy. FRB, said Martin, has "always met business's seasonal needs and will keep on doing so." And needs were being met: even at high interest rates, commercial bank loans in Manhattan alone rose $122 million for the week, nearly five times the increase for the comparable period of last...
Yale faced the kickoff, and the habitually slow-starting Crimson immediately found that Yale football players McGill, Loucks, and Tarasovic were difficult men to stop. Had they been able to pass as well as run, the Elis might have built up an early lead...
...methods of killing (slow strangulation, chopping off limbs, burial alive) have not prevented many young Kenya-born white men from volunteering for infiltration work. Coached by defected Mau Mau in the fine points of native dress, carriage and habits, they have penetrated Mau Mau gatherings, captured supplies of arms and held attackers at bay until reinforcements arrived. Not all white infiltrators come through alive, for they live a double risk. A year ago 19-year-old Donald Bellingham was shot by British security forces who failed to see through his disguise...
...this temperature, deuterium nuclei can react with one another at a rather slow rate. So when the Soviet scientists detected both free neutrons and high-energy X rays coming from the tube, they thought at first that they had started a true thermonuclear reaction. More careful investigation proved that this could not be the case, but free neutrons are the "fire" that cause most nuclear transformations, and any new process that frees them is apt to prove important...