Word: laggardly
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Devens wasn't such a bad ball club if you discount the pitching. They opened up on Crimson starter Ralph Hymans in the seventh for seven runs, and acquitted themselves quite decently in the field, limiting the local delegation to one stolen base and generally keeping things uncomfortable for laggard base-runners...
...weeks ago raucous Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, issued an ultimatum: rail shipments of coal would be embargoed unless something was done about the laggard cars within twelve hours. Canadian bigwigs hurried to Washington, agreed to cut the adverse balance to 8,000 cars of all types, even if it meant returning them empty...
...five horses got away at the start, Assault stumbled and almost dug his nose in the dirt. Smart Jockey Eddie Arcaro quickly pulled him together, but Assault was already twelve lengths in the ruck. The only horse behind him was Stymie, a notorious laggard whose specialty is a hair-raising burst of speed at the end. Assault was carrying the top handicap weight in the race (133 lbs.), but on the backstretch, when Arcaro decided to move, Assault began running...
...faces these privileges and embarrassments about as usual (i.e., as a dastard in love and a laggard in war). The climax: a fight with Joseph Schildkraut, in which the antagonists get fouled up in an 18th Century chamber orchestra...
...became Foreign Secretary, Britain could not make a tenth of the world's output of weapons. Yet from her days of pre-eminent power Britain had inherited over 13 million square miles of empire with 450 million people-and with them a sense of responsibility which, while often laggard and defective, was nevertheless more genuine than that displayed by any other colonial nation. Socialist Bevin faces the rising tide of Asiatic nationalism; 1946 is likely to see another major crisis in India's ferment. Democrat Bevin faces a Russia which has become the strongest power on both...