Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages; and for listless hours when the rain is falling, a round of regimented frolic that smashes British reserve...
After a week of listless debate, the Senate passed the bill, 58 to 22. That left it up to the House, which was not so likely to change its mind: in view of foreign aid, military expenses and tax relief, majority leaders there were opposed to new spending for social legislation...
...After listless debate, passed a Republican resolution to carve $2.5 billion off President Truman's $39.7 billion budget...
Those who backed their expectations with money in Wall Street were more inclined to go along with Sloan. The stock-market perked up last week after more than two months of listless decline. The volume of trading passed a million shares in two sessions v. only one million-share session in September. Moreover, prices edged up in all of the sessions, boosting the Dow-Jones industrial average up 3.59 for the week to 179.44. The week's activity was still too mild to confirm any trend. But traders were more cheerful than they had been in weeks...
Tired Tourist. Evita, grown pale and listless in the heat, had only a languid eye for the mannequins who gave an unprecedented private showing from four of the best-known houses of French haute couture. Other women have to go to the dressmakers; but the dressmakers came to Evita. Members of her entourage said she was "very tired." She canceled an appointment to visit the Louvre, and Father Benitez pinch-hit for her on the radio...