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Word: listlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Song of Bernadette" | 3/22/1946 | See Source »

After he left, the companion C-54 that newsmen were to ride had to be trundled into the hangar and thawed out. On the bumpy, six-and-a-half-hour flight to Kansas City, they played listless poker, worried about the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sentimental Journey | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...game marked only by listless, sloppy play, the Crimson Varsity stumbled to a 40 to 20 win over a game but hopeless Coast Guard five before a crowd of 300 at the Indoor Athletic Building Wednesday evening. The preliminary game went to the Cadet Jayvees...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sluggish Crimson Varsity Tops Coast Guard 40-20 | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

...Said a handsome, listless Jewess who had turned Protestant and married a German Catholic and now spoke as a German: "You must not hope for too much from our people. Those who have grown up under Naziism can never be the same again. The good ones have been killed in the Wehrmacht. I don't know why but that's always the way it is. The good ones get killed. There aren't any left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Faces in the Wallow | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Mitchell Lodzinski, 22, had a dazed, slack-mouthed look. He was listless, dull-eyed, wasted down to 123 lbs. from a normal 160. But somewhere deep in him Detroit detectives sensed a gathering scream. He made them jumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: I Can't Stand Things | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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