Word: laggard
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...governor, Ruiz Cortines made a sound, unsensational record. He appointed commissions to check all state bureaus for graft, and he doubled the state's meager funds by cajoling laggard taxpayers into paying up. At Jalapa, the state capital, he lived in a small cottage outside town and walked to work. Once, when he stopped at a resort hotel in Fortin, he was given a suite. He asked the rate and was told it was 100 pesos. "Don't you think I can solve my problems just as well for 25 pesos?" he asked, and moved to a single...
...high-school boy, he was a laggard student, liked most to swim and tramp in the mountains. He played football fairly well, but he gave up field sports when he was accidentally hit on the head by a South Pasadena shotputter...
...which remark, no laggard...
...Reminded Western Europe, with the easy brusqueness of an old friend, that "the problem of security demands closer cooperation . . . than has been known to date"-an endorsement of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' sharp prodding of the laggard European Defense Community (see below...
...along the civilian production front last week, squawks of anguish pierced the air. The defense mobilizers, anxious to speed up the laggard flow of guns, announced second-quarter production quotas which made a deeper slash into civilian goods than most businessmen had expected. The casualties...