Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like other muscle-minded Argentines before them,* the three athletic attaches had been sent to the U.S. with an official subsidy "to facilitate their sports activities," i.e., win championships for Argentina. But they had failed. Brión lost a listless ten-round bout to fading ex-Champ Joe Louis. Gatica was chilled in two minutes, nine seconds by Lightweight Champ Ike Williams...
Eliot had no trouble in downing an unusually listless Winthrop squad. Major Close's 11 points made him high man for the Elephants...
Criticized Listless Athletes...
After the football team had only narrowly defeated the Carlisle Indians, FDR wrote, "They (the undergraduates) have grown somewhat weary of the slow, listless play of certain men in the line, who seem to think that their weight is a sufficient certificate of admission to membership on a University team...
Pascin (rhymes with askin') was born rich, the son of a Bulgarian grain merchant. He traveled widely, became a U.S. citizen during World War I, but always returned to his Montmartre studio. A heavy-lidded, pasty-faced little man, he was the listless center of thousands of wild parties...