Word: snailing
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...Fidelia Joann Adams, 21, postgraduate student in organic chemistry at Macon County's famed Tuskegee Institute, stood in a snail-paced Negro line while registrars processed applicants two at a time (whites meanwhile whizzed through twelve at a time), was eventually told to copy the second article of the Constitution, accomplished the job in one hour on 8½ longhand pages, was told to go home. She never heard from the registrars again, is barred from voting...
...them on a stage, and one would take them seriously for one minute! They think in cliches, they talk in them, they even feel in them--and, brother, that's an achievement! Their existence is one great cliche that they carry about with them like a snail in his little house--and they live...
...submarine, saying it had sunk a battleship of the Idaho class in the exact position where Indianapolis should have been. Even though old battleship Idaho was near by, nobody gave it a second thought-the Japs were always making such claims. Nobody stopped to figure that with his sea-snail's eye-view, a Jap sub commander could mistake Indianapolis for Idaho...
...country's traditional go-it-alone oil policy by announcing that nearly $1 billion worth of oil development contracts were closed or nearly closed with a long list of foreign oil companies and investors. Argentina has an estimated 2.3 billion bbl. of oil in underground reserves, but snail-slow development forces the country to spend about $300 million a year for imported petroleum and petroleum products...
...separate and about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...