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Word: listlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads returned to the floor for the second half, the cagers had a 25 point deficit to make up. Crimson coach Carol Kleinfelder, discouraged with listless Harvard rebounding, decided inferior height must have been the cause and started her five tallest players. Though strategically questionable, Kleinfelder's plan proved a good choice and the cagers paced B.U. bucket for bucket most of the second half...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Hoopsters Vanquished by B.U., 88-49 Prospective Olympian Debra Miller Stands Out | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...Bruce Springsteen street music thrown into a Barry Manilow package of syrrupy cliches. Forbert has the formula, the solo instrumentals, the rough voice and the street subjects, but these components lack Springsteen's raw spontaneity and power. Where Springsteen bursts with energy and originality Forbert wallows in the listless and trite...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Jackrabbit Slick | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

Focusing on this listless triangle, Lester and Screenwriter Wood present as a dazzling insight into the smugness of power a scene showing Batista absorbed in a Christopher Lee vampire movie as Castro moves in for the kill. The decadence of Batista's supporters appears about as wild as that of the fast crowd in an Ohio country club, while Castro's revolutionaries behave like a hirsute Boy Scout troop. It is hard to believe that this dumb picture is the work of the director who did the delicious Three Musketeers movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Misadventure | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Dwyer's goal took the wind out of the Crimson sails. Trailing 5-2, the icemen played a listless third period, and Gary Sampson sealed the win for the Eagles with a giveaway goal...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Eagles Soar Past Icemen, 6-2 | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

...Listless and flat, the squad left its shooting touch back at the libraries. Sophomore swingman Don Fleming, the team's top scorer with a 22.3 point-per-game average, managed only 11 last night, his offensive strength having deserted him since the impressive triumph over Holy Cross...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Fall to Brown, 75-58, To Open Ivy League Season | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

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