Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rita, naturally, falls in love with one of them. He is, naturally, a lout. But bad as he is, he makes Rita seem less listless and mousy. Margo vacillates between jealousy and the urge to tell Rita what favors she must grant lest she drive him off. Nellie seethes and tries not to notice. Nothing good can come of this, and nothing does...
With only one player on reserve, the injury-ridden Harvard water polo team destroyed a listless Exeter squad, 14-3, in a weekend meet at the Exeter pool in Exeter, New Hampshire...
...interests and has waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers to the once listless tabloid (circ. 219,000) since joining it in 1965, making it a real challenger to the flabby Denver Post...
...Chancellor has sunk into fits of melancholy before, but this time the image of a listless Brandt took its toll at the polls. In a series of state and city elections, the S.P.D. suffered setbacks ranging from 6% to 10%, compared with 1970. Experts were predicting that the Socialists would lose a June 9 election in the state of Lower Saxony, even though Brandt has promised to campaign there personally. The most Europe-minded of the Continent's leaders, he was also saddened by the insistence of Britain's new Labor government that it would "renegotiate" the terms...
...hero of the people-with an air of dignified amazement. However, this is a muted Mostel, and somehow he is not enough. Whether the problem lies in trying to capture Joyce onstage or in Burgess Meredith's direction, there are long moments of curious lifelessness, a kind of listless anarchy, the stage business often as flyaway as the Joycean allusions...