Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy himself has an additional motive. He realizes that he has gone too far too fast in the run for 1960, that his liabilities are catching up with his assets-and yet he cannot slow down. A huge, headline-catching win over respectable Republican opposition in Massachusetts would give him a second wind. Then he could be off again on what, by the nature of the position he has staked out for himself, is bound sometimes to be a lonely way. Says Jack Kennedy: "An independent position is the only place for me. I'm a Northern Democrat...
...natives: "Do not live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real and responsible independence. Last week, as M'bida's grace period expired, hundreds straggled back from the jungle. The UPC retaliated by burning half a dozen villages, killing scores of terrorized men and women...
...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
...Ph.D. is tortuously slow and riddled with needless uncertainties; that it is frequently inefficient and traumatically disagreeable to the frustrated candidate. The basic flaw is: We have never clearly defined this protean degree...
Clean Sweep. The market rally in stocks was nothing to what happened to bonds. With ever-increasing interest rates, the market has been slow, since buyers have held off and waited for even better buys. But with the discount rate cut, orders poured in to Wall Street from all over the U.S.. particularly from institutional investors, and the bond market had its biggest rally since World War II. Many bond dealers were completely cleaned out. Most notable was a slow-selling $250 million offering of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. When the Fed's news broke, less than half...