Word: laggards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...