By taking a slow walk into the water to acclimate the body to the cold.

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All of this explains why poll after poll shows Republicans fired up and ready to go in November, and Democrats thinking they are walking their own slow walk to the execution chamber.

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Blue Jays bench coach DeMarlo Hale was ejected for arguing in the seventh when New York's Eduardo Nunez was slow to walk to the plate after Overbay's homer.

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On a test run in an alley across from the office, the vehicle lurches forward to a slow trot as engineers nervously walk alongside it in case the gyroscopes fail and the cycle tips.

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His walk, as opposed to his talk, is slow or even backward on these issues.

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Currently, a Nave is on display at the Daros Foundation in Zurich, and walking through it is like floating: you lose your bearings and move in slow motion, as though doing a moon walk.

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When faced with tough questions like these, take a deep breath, slow down, and then sound out your thinking process aloud, and walk the interviewer through how you get to an answer.

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Interaction of a slow-paced kind: if you really wish to know a country, walk it.

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The reality is that investors may have become overoptimistic on the prospects of housing and the speed of a possible recovery that will be slow and gradual at most, and will resemble more an upward climb than a walk in the park.

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