Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Typically, SAD sufferers become clinically depressed with the approach of winter. Besides gaining weight, oversleeping and being listless, they withdraw socially, lose interest in sex and feel anxious and irritable. As spring approaches, depression subsides and behavior returns to normal. In fact, some people become downright euphoric during the long days of July and August. Carl Harris, 37, of Takoma Park, Md., whose winter plaint is "If I were a bear, I'd hibernate," finds in summer that he needs only four hours of sleep a night and can work two or three jobs at once. Latitude appears...
Despite the diplomatic obstacles ahead, Nicaragua's overture promises to put fresh wind in the listless sails of Central America's peace process. While no one seriously believed an enduring peace would settle over the region on Nov. 5, as called for by the pact, Arias had repeatedly warned that negotiations were at an "impasse" that could be broken only if the Sandinistas yielded on the cease-fire talks. Though the Reagan Administration has never been happy with the accord, the proposal has so far survived, if only because no leader wants to be seen as the man who killed...
...There was a lot of subbing," Lyons said. "We didn't have it, we were listless...
...narrow, bony chest and lights a cigarette. Her dark arms are riddled with small, round scars, the hieroglyphs of chronic heroin abuse. She is here for the seventh time in two years. In 1982 she brought her four- year-old son Rashan to this same hospital. The boy was listless, losing weight; he had white spots on his lips and tongue. The boy's father, a drug addict, had recently come out of prison and was not at all well himself...
Wandered, listless, oh so tame...