Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regretted, in a brisk reply to Nikita S. Khrushchev's letter of last month, Russia's cold shoulder of the slow negotiation sessions with Western ambassadors in Moscow on an agenda for a possible summit meeting, patiently pledged to keep on trying to find ways to get along with the Soviets...
...Shimizu gave Yoshimitsu generous injections (up to 30 mg. a day) of testosterone and other hormones for almost a year to slow his growth and help build his strength. Last March Dr. Shimizu performed a drastic operation. He opened Yoshimitsu's skull across the forehead and probed past vital brain substance to get at the deep-hidden, almost inaccessible pituitary. Then he removed the tumor...
Wahoo was not noted for learning half a century ago, but its less-than-perfect school system did not slow or discourage Beadle's active mind. He made his own lunch, generally jelly sandwiches (he still hates jelly sandwiches) and walked the three-mile round trip to school. When he earned a little money by such rural operations as keeping bees and trapping muskrats, he bought garlic bolognas (two for 5?) at the Bohemian butcher shop...
...played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
...money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says. "I'll take mine slower." Landa has never been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University. In 1926 he joined a top Washington law firm (now Davies, Richberg, Tydings, Landa...