Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first few post-War years, Harvard theatre was monopolized by a batch of initials--HDC, VTW, HTW, and HTG. With the active phase of the War over in 1945, the College began its slow transition to normalcy. That autumn, the student body increased; and some of them decided at once to revive the Harvard Dramatic Club (established in 1908) as an independent group. The HDC put on two plays that first year, but neither fared very well...
Quarterback Ron Johanson early noted a weakness outside tackle and end in the tightly packed Buffalo defenses. Chet Boulris and Sam Halaby exploited these holes for several substantial gains in the first period, but it was painfully obvious that the Crimson backs were too slow to do any real damage here...
Returns from France's vast overseas territories, with more than 15 million registered voters, were slow coming...
...made during the unpleasantness of the '40's ? In the story, however, your hypoxic staffer was understandably carried away by overexposure to so much brass in such rarefied atmosphere. The good greying admiral never could have done a "snap roll" tied to another plane's wing. Slow roll yes, but a snap roll is an axial roll involving a partial stall, and were you to try this maneuver tied wing-to-wing with another fly machine, you would experience a feeling of togetherness which you would never get over. J. SHELDON LEWIS Chief Pilot...
...Gray Plan had outlived its usefulness. Poor Governor Stanley, who never quite seemed to get the word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd met secretly in Washington with top organization lieutenants to chart the course for a massive resistance program that-in the name...