Word: laggards
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...Churchill himself must have seemed the volcano. The year covered by Closing the Ring (June 1943 to D-day 1944) included the assaults on Sicily and Italy, the enlarging war in the Pacific and the massive preparations for the Normandy invasion. Yet Churchill found time to swoop down on laggard officials everywhere, keep a sharp eye on everything from poultry-feed supplies to stocks of playing cards, and make a run through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
...widely applauded for trying to shift Tory emphasis from "inheritors of wealth" to "creators of wealth." Socialism, on the other hand, said Winston Churchill, is trying to keep in power by "appealing to moods of greed and envy," by keeping "the vanguard back" for the benefit of the laggard...
...third floor empty) in the hope that they would be so crowded that some would leave. He had no use for most sales managers, thought cars sold themselves on their mechanical qualities. Repeatedly he fired sales managers who blamed a sales slump on the Ford car's laggard styling, finally told Bennett: "What's the use of having any more sales managers? We'll just let them go." He disliked fat men, forced 300-lb. Fred Allison, an early associate in the Ford Company but who was down on his luck, to take off weight for months...
Though the picture and sound were technically clear, transcontinental TV got only laggard help from its human machines. H. V. Kaltehborn's running commentary tended to obscure rather than illumine the action. The announcers, in their interviews with delegates, managed to say almost nothing, and that dully. Due to an inept translation, Russia's Andrei Gromyko was made to sound even more illogical than usual...
...priest will say Low Mass, while a second priest serves as commentator. Planned for future telecasts in the series: baptism, confirmation and-perhaps-marriage, in order to give the meaning of the sacraments "in a realistic way." But Catholic churchmen had a word of warning for laggard Catholics: Mass by TV is not a substitute for attendance at church on Sunday...