Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Katherine Gratwick, the new concertmistress, and Michael Nieland were soloists in Bach's Double Concerto. They were extremely competent, but could both have used more warmth in the slow movement and subtlety throughout. If they left some opportunities unexplored, they did perform with spirit and clarity...
...jets, nuclear submarines, atomic bombs, missiles and electronic computers, science and military planners have been painfully slow coming to the rescue of the foot soldier. But last fortnight the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Va. displayed an arsenal of new gear designed to give the well-armed G.I. more mobility, independence of action and firepower in the next war. Items...
...slow to arrive at decisions, he partly made up for it by a relentless, austere capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed...
...social but physical, economic, nutritional and medical. In this fact lies one of the gerontolo- gists' chief hopes: to discover why some men are biologically old at 60, while others like Stagg are still young at a far more advanced chronological age-then to apply this knowledge to slow down what now appears to be premature aging...
...will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected to sell for less than any other car of its two major competitors. Ford will also slash prices of its slow-rolling Edsel by "hundreds of dollars...