Word: languidness
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...Governor of Alaska went dutifully from class to class with an armful of books. Schoolmarms hovered in little knots around visiting male professors. Undergraduates sported and snorted in Mills College's big outdoor pool, or strolled in summery clothes under the giant eucalyptus trees. To a languid class in Mills's gleaming white music building, André Maurois read passages from his autobiography-in-preparation...
...possibilities. Seattle fishermen who went to vaunted hidden streams in the Grand Coulee country are finding good fish in nearby streams. Ohio and Mississippi river dwellers have returned to the old steamboat cruises. Many a resort would be a quiet place this year, would perhaps return to the more languid pre-gasoline pleasures of other times...
...manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...
...kick an old copy of the "Lampoon" under the studio couch. This war was getting under his skin. Once this compulsory athletic program begins I won't even be able to stand up, much less walk around, he thought as he collapsed into an armchair. Stretching out a languid hand for a quick-energy chocolate bar, he reflected on the meagreness of the evening meal. A man needed more than that under his belt after four weary hours in Harry's Club. He'd really learned to know the place in the last two months...
...organizers who demurred at raiding other C.I.O. unions, or field workers whose loyalty to John Lewis was doubtful, were quickly purged. Their work, said Miss Lewis languidly, was "unsatisfactory." Miss Lewis' languid air covers a nimble mind. Formally educated at Bryn Mawr, she learned her footwork from Father John. Established behind a huge desk in a cathedral-like office three floors below his, she makes tough decisions in a soft, clipped voice. One of her first decisions was to drop the phrase "affiliated with the C.I.O." from the masthead of District 50 News...