Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brown-haired and blue-eyed, her head held royally on a swanlike neck. Her smooth skin, spring-in-England coloring and regal carriage give her subjects cause to call her beautiful. Her voice is clear-toned, with a still youthful ring; her movements are slow and assured. She wears her royal costumes and glittering gowns with majesty and grace; yet in tweeds and low-heeled shoes she gives out a no-nonsense warmth that can put any housewife in Winnipeg or Salisbury at ease...
Said Father Wilfrid Kelly of Crewe, Cheshire last week: "This is difficult to do, but the necessity for it is perfectly understandable. Think of Cardinal Newman's reference to the slow dance of the Mass. Read how God told the Israelites to build the tabernacle in the desert, and note the tremendous visual detail in his instructions. Our Lord's methods were perfect television, in three dimensions...
...advice was fine, but results were slow. In the early winter of 1901, while Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing...
...Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a former Air Force captain. Both men made their reputations after going into industry, not before. They recognized, as do many career officers, that promotions are slow in peacetime, and a bright young man can often do better for himself-and in some ways, better for his country-by putting aside his uniform for businessman's blue. But in Congress, the talk was of legislation to put a check rein on military men, possibly by forbidding retirement...
...Mercutio did Shakespeare give the celebrated Queen Mab speech, one of the great virtuoso arias in the language. Smithers delivers this faery monologue in a slow, sloppy, slovenly manner, with no heed to what he is saying, when the speech should be, in Mercutio's own words, "as thin of substance...