Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces these privileges and embarrassments about as usual (i.e., as a dastard in love and a laggard in war). The climax: a fight with Joseph Schildkraut, in which the antagonists get fouled up in an 18th Century chamber orchestra...
...became Foreign Secretary, Britain could not make a tenth of the world's output of weapons. Yet from her days of pre-eminent power Britain had inherited over 13 million square miles of empire with 450 million people-and with them a sense of responsibility which, while often laggard and defective, was nevertheless more genuine than that displayed by any other colonial nation. Socialist Bevin faces the rising tide of Asiatic nationalism; 1946 is likely to see another major crisis in India's ferment. Democrat Bevin faces a Russia which has become the strongest power on both...
...only laggard was France. In 1859, Paris composers got the Government to stabilize A at 870 vibrations, at 59° Fahrenheit...
...Laggard Government. Amputees at Walter Reed claim that there have been no improvements in prostheses since the Civil War. Some say there have been none since the Middle Ages-and cite as evidence a knight's false...
Having arrived two weeks after the Japs landed at Buna (July 20), Kenney spent two months organizing his air force, pepping up laggard flyers, briefing new ones, getting his fresh supply of planes ready for action. By Sept. 28 the Jap was at Ioribaiwa, only 32 miles from Port Moresby. MacArthur, his chief of staff Major General Richard K. Sutherland (a pilot himself), Australian General Blamey and Kenney fixed on a plan: to wrest control of the air, despite hell and high mountains, by blasting the Japs out of Buna and far-off Lae and Salamaua, the bases from which...