Word: flaccid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the State Department's flaccid indecisiveness in the whole affair, the Chinese Communists had apparently bowed to international indignation and, more important, to their desire for diplomatic recognition and the right to represent China in the U.N. Ward's release came only a day after the U.S. appealed to 30 nations (including Russia) for help in freeing the consul general and his aides...
...Earl. He has none of Huey's wild, magnetic appeal. At 53 he is a soft, dumpy man with a mushy voice, a flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
...master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion, surcingle, maraschino...
...foamed ... on every street. . . . Spring had tossed her pale green garments on every branch. . . . Long beams of sun fell across [Frank Clair's] thin white hands [which] lay on his coat, still, flaccid. . . . His eyes moved too slowly in their pits of dark shadow...
...Pitted, flaccid Frank Clair is the hero of a new novel by Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell, whose previous novels (This Side of Innocence, The Eagles Gather, Dynasty of Death, etc.) have rung up a total sale of almost 2,000,000 copies. This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946. Consequently, the appearance of her new novel is an event for her admirers-and, for analytical critics, another ripe opportunity to examine the ingredients and treatment wherewith Author Caldwell has made herself one of the richest novelists...