In the arcane world of scholarship and science, promotions are seldom speedy and almost always painfully slow.
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Prev: Mary Ann felt painfully inadequate in the crisis.
Next: If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energyto your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.
