Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson had actually driven its effort to the ranks of "listless" earlier in the second, failing to capitalize on three power-play chances. In all, Harvard went 0-for-9 in man-up situations on the afternoon, on four occasions drawing penalties themselves less than 30 seconds into the power play...
...Hongkong & Shanghai Bank are the bronze Britannic lions. Another old bank has been transformed into an absorbing museum of ancient art. The Peace Hotel, built as the Cathay by Sir Victor Sassoon hi the mid-1930s and now the premier hostelry for Western visitors, is creaky and listless, but it can still mount a banquet worthy of an Emperor. At a school hi Shanghai's Yangpu district, 34 exquisite young voices rehearse a song that turns out to be pure Maozart: We Follow Our Chairman. In a nearby room at the Children's Palace, a finely tuned orchestra...
...Iranian troops struck me as the most listless of the U.N. forces, and the Gurkhas from Nepal as the most contented. They brought their bugles and drums with them to Lebanon, and an enormous silver bell used both for ceremonies and for sounding an alarm. "Our King believes in peace," says the Nepalese commander, Lieut. Colonel Keshar Bahadur Gantaula. "We came here in that spirit, and we'll give anyone a fair chance. But, of course, if they don't respond, then we'll fight...
DIED. William Steinberg, 78, German-born conductor who transformed the listless Pittsburgh Symphony into one of the nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
This sense of the room comes from memories of a Faculty meeting last spring. It was one of the first short-sleeve days of the year, the kind that slow down your cold-weather metabolism and make you lazy and listless. As President Bok called the meeting to order just after 4 p.m., the air in the room was sticky, and professors' heads were already starting to nod off to sleep...