Word: laggard
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...House Ways & Means Committee, working on a new tax bill, shied away from his all-out proposals. Farm bloc Senators complained bitterly, for the record. But Franklin Roosevelt had a big stick, at which his message hinted delicately: this is an election year, and the people are impatient with laggard legislators...
There remained little question but that Russia would last out the winter, would fight hard next year, would go on resisting somehow from some mountain Chungking. The laggard democracies would have more precious time to gird for the job of beating Hitler. It would be an awesome job, but now it could be done...
...Good old Winnie!" roared the laggard suburbanites in one voice...
...People grow out of the habit of going to movies. Chief reason : they get married, have babies, and spend more time at home. Ace cinemaddicts are 19-year-olds, who buy some 2,080,000 tickets weekly. Laggard are those over 30, who give the box office just 35% of its take. Typical movie goer is 27 years old, earning $28 a week...
...question of confidence. . . . The House should have occasional opportunities of making its criticisms and suggestions without being fettered by considerations which are involved in a vote of confidence." But instead of pressing this point, Lloyd George spent much of his time charging that the U.S. has been a laggard in helping Britain-a criticism scarcely to be laid in toto at Winston Churchill's door...