Word: laggardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same weight as the death of a crazed corporal who tries to mine a flame-throwing tank, and whose head "burned like a match." In the book's most telling episode, a captain goes mad when he is compelled to execute as a deserter a stunned and muddled laggard sergeant major who is trying to get back to his unit. Author Ledig, a twice-wounded veteran of the Russian front, has given his royalties from this painful book to an orphanage for war victims. Readers can deduce this compassion from his apparently brutal narrative; what is at work here...
...velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace grows laggard toward the end. Instead of using music as a background for action, Hitchcock moves it up front, and moviegoers must sit still not only for the dismayingly long cantata but also for special numbers sung by Doris Day. The chief drawback of these musical stage-waits is that they allow...
...unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is ... the . . . laggard...
...British Medical Journal. A comparative survey of 700 children (half of them premature, the rest normal) showed that 40% of the premature babies had reached normal height and weight by the age of four. They were all children of average-sized mothers (average 63½ in., 135 lbs.). The laggard 60% were children of small women. Concluded the report: "The height of a mother gives a better indication of the likely growth pattern of her premature baby than does her baby's weight at birth, the medical history of pregnancy, or the length of gestation...
...school he was a laggard in mathematics and was put in a special class, where he was made to do sums in his head. The lessons stuck, and he now astounds people with his memory for figures and lightning-like calculations. Schoolmate Sid Richardson, who is five years older, spent his spare time trading cattle. Sid taught Clint so much about cattle trading that Murchison was able to run a crippled heifer into $1,500 by the time he entered Texas' Trinity University...