Word: laggard
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...every wall calamity teetered: Korea, the strained U.S. budget, laggard Western European defense, the danger of German rearmament, the weakness of the Middle East and Africa, the limitations of U.S. atomic bombing, the possibility of atomic attacks on the U.S. No doubt the inspectors were right. Disaster lurked in all these places, and in others too. The U.S. horizon, however, could not be ringed with nothing but catastrophe. Some of that smoke was in the eyes of the beholders...
...major work by a great French novelist is making its first appearance in English. But because of curious circumstances and the laggard energy for which publishers are noted, there has been a slight delay of 115 years between French composition and English publication. This is how it happened...
...order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and talk to him. Tilted back in his swivel chair at his cluttered desk, he would listen patiently to laggard students, troubled facultymen, Michigan farmers and taxpayers. The purpose of a land-grant college, he said, should be "service to all people." Last week, after nine years, M.S.C. had reason to know what 47-year-old "Uncle John" Hannah meant...
...week's grace will be given laggard students, a Student Government spokesman said yesterday, but a heavy fine will be levied on those who have not paid after Saturday. Only persons with iron-bound excuses for not paying will be allowed longer deferments...
...years, Hargrave told the House Appropriations Committee, the U.S. had stockpiled less than 10% of the five-year goal set as a bare minimum for one year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount...