Word: snails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work...
...police announced that they would move against Russolillo "immediately." Because of the snail's pace of Italian justice, however, by the time Russolillo pays the $240 fine, inflation will have made it no worse than the $50 una tantum he owes...
There were odysseys in which the Sirens are silent. Without paper, he conceived stories the intricacy and strangeness of which might have earned him a nod of approval from Dickens, the Pentateuch and Tolstoy of England. Before paper his imagination withdrew like a snail whose horns had been touched...
Buried under nearly two miles of water, the huge valley probed by the subs is the place where the Americas began to part from Europe and Africa some 180 million years ago. The continents are still drifting away from one another at a snail's pace of one inch or so a year...
...cell flows into and over the ruffles, almost as if it were pulling itself along. As the body of the cell moves over the folds, other ruffles grow along the cell's new leading edge, and in turn attach themselves to the surface. Thus the cell continues its snail-paced journey...