Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slow the Arms Race. The U.N. should undertake "to see what arms control arrangements could be worked out" to curb, by voluntary agreement, the Middle East's "wasteful, dangerous competition in armaments...
...surrender" egg, originally hatched out of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, was set down in the slow incubator of the Congressional Record (along with two routine editorials on farm legislation) by Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. The report stayed quietly warm for four days, then popped from its shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender...
...goes well at the Cape Canaveral launching pad, a three-stage Thor-Able rocket will shoot the probe into space at an initial speed of 23,827 m.p.h. After the third-stage rocket drops off at 200 miles beyond earth, the probe, still pulled by earth, will gradually slow down as it flies for almost three days...
Cause of the strife was a medical dispute that is symptomatic of modern India : should aspiring healers be taught the medicine of the ancient, mystical and slow-to-change East or the medicine of the modern, scientific, restlessly changeful West? India has more licensed practitioners of native medical systems (96,000) than of Western medicine (92,000); the vast majority of these engage in ayurveda (Sanskrit for "the science of life") and bitterly resent the encroachment of Western medicine...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...