Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents of Prichard, a decaying and listless town of 41,000 people on the outskirts of Mobile, had not known such excitement since Alabama Governor George Wallace last gave his rousing annual Labor Day address in a local park. There, behind the screaming sirens of the escorting police motorcycles, came four Lincoln Continentals, a white Cadillac, a marching band and an ROTC drill team. The town, almost equally divided between blue collar whites and impoverished blacks, was parading to inaugurate its new and unlikely mayor: Algernon ("Jay") Cooper Jr., 28, a smooth and sophisticated Northern-educated black...
...patented fastball. Bench persisted, and Maloney finally came in with a roundhouse curve that left the astonished batter gaping at a called third strike. Another time, when Bench felt a pitcher was not putting enough steam on the ball, he shocked everyone in the park by arrogantly catching a listless pitch with his bare hand. Thus chastened, the pitcher bore down hard...
Kerry's address was the highlight of an otherwise listless rally which attracted fewer than 500 people to Boston Common on a warm, sunny afternoon...
That was all the Celts and their previously listless fans needed. They started their patented fast break offense scoring 35 last period and never let up, capacity crowd of over 15,000 in Boston's steaming "Ghastly Garden" went wild, jumping to its feet to cheer every Celtics basket...
Although they are without homes, migrant children in their earliest years are "quick, animated?tenacious of life." This does not last long, for hunger, disease and despair soon take their toll. "Migrant parents and even migrant children do indeed become what some of their harshest critics call them: listless, apathetic, hard to understand, disorderly, subject to outbursts of self-injury and destructive violence toward others...