Word: snailing
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...Thunderchiefs had been shot down by MIGs of the tiny (36 jets) North Vietnamese air force. What McConnell wanted to know was how the Thunderchief, a big brute of a plane with speeds up to 1,400 m.p.h., had been bested in combat by the snail-paced (730 m.p.h.) MIG-17, a relic of the Korean...
...scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough to stumble upon the idyllic...
Stretched Blood. The blockade is hurting. The snail-pace behavior of the customs guards has crippled tourism. Gibraltar has tried to take up the slack with public-works projects and by passing laws to permit tax havens for small industry as well as Panama-style flags-of-convenience for shipowners...
...middle of the third period, the effects of the exam period break were obvious, as the game slowed to a snail's pace. By this time, however, the outcome had already been decided, and the last ten minutes seemed merely an effort by both teams to run out the clock...
...into Hindi, a task complicated by the fact that one English term often comes out as a cumbersome and exotic train of several Hindi words ("telephone exchange," translated literally into Hindi, is "house of the distant voices"). Such bureaucracy by doublespeak is hardly apt to speed India's snail-slow governmental machinery, which at a time of increasing national difficulties needs just the opposite. Desks of West Bengal bureaucrats are already piled high with letters from opposite numbers in Uttar Pradesh, which they cannot read, much less answer, since the senders in dutiful obedience to the new law failed...