Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the scientist in charge. Deep under its shield the core grew hotter and hotter, its temperature rising toward the danger point. The scientist, watching the instruments, told the technician to shut the reactor off instantly, but his order was misunderstood; the technician used control devices that were too slow. Before they could take effect the core had partially melted. Instruments warned of radiation danger, the alarm was given, and the building was cleared. No one was hurt, but the reactor is still shut down...
...birdies (the 13th through 18th) and came home through the back nine in 35. Middlecoff, meanwhile, ran into poor luck. His eyes were swollen from hay fever, and someone had borrowed his jacket, which contained the medicine he needed. Jittery and red-eyed, he fell apart, finished with a slow 40. That was right back where he started the day-four strokes behind Venturi. "If it's windy like that tomorrow," he said, "I don't even want to play on the s.o.b...
...teams. They may dream of training champions, but they make do with what they have. Cortland's Swimming Coach Dr. James E. Counsilman was even willing to work with a sandy-haired freshman named George E. Breen, whose best effort for the 440-yd. freestyle was a dismally slow 7:30. "He looked as though he might drown," says Counsilman, remembering that sad performance in the fall of 1952. Breen thought the coach was kidding when Counsilman took him aside and said...
Times were slow and points scarce, but the varsity track team got its spring training in the Quantico quagmire in Virginia Friday and Saturday...
...modern highways are planned to surround the center to allow easy access. Though the district will be a purely pedestrian area, Grulen says that there would rarely be more than a two minute walk to any building in the area from the nearest garage. Underground trucking roads and slow moving carts would eliminate the problems of moving heavy baggage and crates...