Word: listless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving to pursue outside interests." In sports, it is understood that all such rapid declines are drug-related, and sportswriters, the original masters of journalese, are constantly casting about for nonlibelous ways of suggesting that Johnny Jumpshot is deeply in love with controlled substances. The current code words are "listless" and "lacking motivation or concentration." If the reporter writes that the athlete "occasionally misses the team bus," the astute reader understands that Jumpshot is a walking pharmacy who no longer knows where or who he is, though his body still turns up for games...
...month before national elections, the listless Dutch Liberal Party seems likely to lose perhaps a third of its 36 seats in the 150-seat parliament. Its troubles only increased when this month's Dutch edition of Playboy hit the newsstands. The magazine showed two Liberal Party officials partying very liberally indeed. One shot shows Party Secretary Arnoud Cevaal, 37, sitting on one of the classic green benches inside the stately parliamentary assembly hall in the Hague. But Cevaal's mind is clearly not on affairs of state, since his hand is busy exploring the bared behind of Lorette Welter...
When the clouds--and the dust--finally cleared, the Engineers (now 1-1) had nabbed a 6-1 victory, and handed the listless Crimson (2-1) its first loss of the season...
That's because the game between Minnesota (35-13-0) and Denver University (34-13-1) proved listless and sloppy, with the Golden Gophers eventually defeating the Pioneers...
Give credit to Harvard (3-1-1,3-1 ECAC). The Crimson, listless in its first four contests, finally, found itself. "We've been missing that oompl.," Harvard Coacl, Bill Cleary said, "We found it today...