Word: slowdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owner Rex Ellsworth pointed out, Swaps never reached top speed; a flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
...Britain's Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey, running four laps slower than the leader, was caught short. He braked hard and swung left. Behind the Austin-Healey was Pierre Levegh's No. 20 Mercedes, tearing along at 150 m.p.h. Levegh raised his arm in a slowdown wave for his teammate, Argentine Juan Fangio, 100 yards astern. The man who had wondered about the need for signals was beyond their salvation: this one was his last gesture...
...walkout brought a creeping slowdown in British industry, already troubled by a strike of 20,000 dockers. Coal piled up at the pitheads, steel mills closed, trawlers were laid up for lack of fuel. Commuters, who took to buses, cars and bicycles by the thousands to get to their offices, involved London in a huge traffic snarl. With the nation's vital export trade and its own prestige at stake, Sir Anthony Eden's new Tory government stepped in vigorously. In the Queen's name, Eden...
...wave lengths set for Korea and Indo-China. But of all the mechanisms, the most carefully calibrated is the squeezer known as the Berlin Blockade. It is so sensitive that it can register cold-war pressure by the raising or lowering of a road barrier, or by a sudden slowdown in the Berlin elevated railway...
...charge of delay for the Craig forces was a round, rollicking state senator named Roy Conrad of Monticello, who raises purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle. An expert in state political matters, Conrad put the slowdown on everywhere. He even changed his personal gait. From his seat near the back of the senate chamber to the microphone at the front, Conrad began to move at the pace of a tired Angus on a summer evening. Conrad was not tired; he had merely made a deal with Craig to block the Jennerite bill...