Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witness Slichter, 67, seemed almost affectionate toward price upcreep. "A slow rise in the price level is an inescapable cost of the maximum rate of growth," he said. The effects of slow inflation "are by no means as disastrous as they are frequently described." Like most other economists of the a-little-inflation-never-hurt-anybody school, he failed to make the distinction between the short-term direct effects of price upcreep and the much more serious longer-term psychological effects of accepting price upcreep as inevitable and tolerable (TIME, March...
Novelist Wister established the basic form of the modern sagebrush saga: the strong, silent, shy and virtuous hero; the hard-drinking, materialistic villain; the pretty, intelligent schoolteacher-heroine; the cattle politics; the slow drawl, the fast draw; the long, wary walk down Main Street to a blazing finish. And Zane Grey, a cactus-happy New York dentist who wrote 54 western novels that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious...
Japanese businessmen are slow to hire educated girls for decent positions. A girl college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...table dropped a bone to applaud, her diamonds glittering; she seemed bemused by what a night of Sinatra might be worth. Whatever the song -Willow Weep for Me, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp-Frankie's unmatched showmanship, his sad, slow baritone, his baggy, bedroom eyes got the message across...
...little (13,500 tons) single-stacked British liner Athenia was known for comfort and informality-her slow crossings rarely attracted millionaires or celebrities. She sailed from Liverpool with 1,102 passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...