Word: snails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be handicapped by Washington's late start. For the Woolton paper is the result of more than two and a half years' exacting work. During that time, the New Deal has done little. Innumerable Congressional and administrative-bureau "postwar-planning" committees are making snail's progress in a dozen different directions, without policy guidance from...
Special police slowed down traffic. Streetcars crept at a snail's pace past the archiepiscopal residence. Inside, on his deathbed, lay an 84-year-old Prince of the Church. The fingers of one hand clutched a crucifix. Weakly the prelate raised the crucifix, gave his last blessing to those kneeling around his bed. Thus to His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, fortified by the last rites of the Church and consoled by Pope Pius' cabled message of "eternal affection," death came in Boston last week...
...South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...communiques told a now familiar tale: it was snail's progress by U.S., British, New Zealand, Canadian and Indian troops. They recorded the storming of a hill by cobelligerent Italians, who had been severely mauled in a first venture against their ex-allies (TIME, Dec. 20); for that success, General Clark sent congratulations. But most notable was the announcement that French soldiers were also in the line...
Until pachydermatous (275 lb.) Frederick Riebel Jr. was ousted from his $30,000-a-year job as president of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. three weeks ago, he kept his mouth tightly closed. But last week, before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is probing Brewster's snail-paced production, Mr. Riebel rattled all the Brewster skeletons in public...