Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greece but with the U.S. Both Athens and London-the first publicly, the second privately-believe that Washington has been laggard in using its persuasive abilities. Says a high British official...
...perfect job which offers all the qualities of post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they are admirable, in a sense, but not enviable. For if the prevailing militant regime of purposive competition seems a bit unstable...
Though his Administration has been laggard in providing aid for the veterans, President Nixon showed that at least he appreciates them. Said the Commander in Chief in a drum-thumping speech at the National War College: "Because they saw it through, because they did not quit, we were able to negotiate an honorable end to the war at the conference table, which would not have been possible had they not served with distinction and courage to the end."Many Vietvets, however, are now concerned about goals closer to home. A veterans' lobbyist later complained that Nixon "didn...
...words to praise it. R is a "true artist . . . with a diabolically evocative style." Indeed it seems that R's prose has "a richness, an ostensible dash, that caused some of the less demanding reviewers in his adopted country to call him a master stylist." To aid that laggard crowd, Nabokov has provided some blatant examples of the wordplays he is famous for. Proofreading R's new book, he puzzles about an incidental character named Adam von Librikov. Lest anyone miss the point, Nabokov adds, "Or was the entire combination a sly scramble...
...driving force in an otherwise laggard U.S. business recovery, the housing industry is heading toward a record year. Builders, cheered by the temporary freeze on material costs and wages, are counting on the exuberant demand to continue throughout most of 1972. Though the Commerce Department reported last week that housing starts fell in September for the first time in five months, industry leaders remain buoyant. Says Eli Broad, chairman of Los Angeles' Kaufman & Broad, a big home builder: "I still think we're going to reach a record 2,000,000 starts this year...