Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertrude, of course, never worried about letting herself go. Someone made the remark that, like George Washington, whose birth month she shared, she was impulsive and slow-minded. It is easy to see her as she was then, hair pulled back in an untidy bun, skirt and blouse refusing to meet. Fernando Olivier, who lived with Picasso, described her thus: "Fat short, massive, beautiful head, strong with noble features, accentuated, regular, intelligent eyes seeing clearly, spiritually. Her mind clear and lucid. Masculine in her voice, in all her walk..." Her hands were all of one piece, rather than having articulate...
...slow start which sent many of the fans downstairs to watch the swimming meet characterized the entire first half, except for a brief Crimson spurt toward the end. Trailing 24-22 with five minutes to go, the varsity began to utilize a good fast break and pulled ahead, 30 to 25. But the Bruins quickly closed the gap, and went off at halftime on the short end of a 32-31 score...
Mother sends him, at no little sacrifice, and he proves a spectacular student. Several years later he wins a scholarship to the university in Calcutta. He rushes home in tremendous excitement. "Mother, can I go?" And here begins the long, slow, exquisite resolution of the drama: the story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting...
Walks in the classroom, cool and slow...
Like other observers. Levine sees the slow growth of a Soviet middle class "more concerned with retention of what it has than with revolution abroad.'' These Communist bourgeois hunger "for contacts with the outside world, for more goods, for a measure of self-expression," and he believes they will act as a brake on "adventurist Soviet policies...