Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles was slow moving and generally ineffective against Fleeman, who is Texas light heavyweight champion...
...concrete terms, the choice lies between the extension of the civil rights legislation or painfully slow change in the status quo; between a needed, though expensive Federal Housing Act, on a permanent basis, or no housing law amendment; between a philosophy of constructive relief for economically depressed areas or a faith in the recuperative nature of economic cycles. To us the choice is obvious...
...drops back into the atmosphere, the pilot must match his speed to the density of the air. As the air grows thicker at lower altitudes, he must slow down to keep the heat of friction from softening his wings. If he comes too close to the danger point, he will veer upward into thinner air to let his plane cool off. Slowed down and cooled off, the X-15 can then glide to the ground, landing on a pair of nosewheels and two skids near the tail...
...handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate account of a painter's agonies, slow development and indomitable courage was ever set down...
...this latest Greene entertainment, the hero gets away with more than usual. He is Mr. Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman who has for years been the Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like many a Greene male, Wormold is physically unimpressive. He limps. His beautiful wife ran away with an American years before, leaving him with a beautiful daughter now 16. Without religious props himself, he is bringing up Milly as a strict Catholic just as he had promised her mother he would...