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Word: listlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laxmen ran the score up to 5-1 with four quick tallies against a listless Dartmouth defense...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Laxmen Finish Season on Winning Note | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...cities are particularly well served by a journalistic phenomenon that is sadly in decline: local daily competition. In Dallas, the Morning News (circ. 336,000) and Times Herald (circ. 270,000), both of which were somewhat listless until a few years ago, have spurred each other to make the city one of the best covered in the country. In Detroit, similarly happy results have come from the face-off between the Free Press (circ. 635,000) and News (circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Ten Best U.S. Dailies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...fact, the entire team worked in spurts, moving into an unknown Twilight Zone, then beaming back to Marvel. While Harvard fans displayed "Go For It. Crimson" signs and kept waiting for their squad to blow the lid off the Bruins' home gym, the Crimson seemed a bit listless after its victory at Yale the night before. But as tried as the squad appeared, they did muster the energy to keep Brown in the contest...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Twilight Zone | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...dimension of the hockey miracle in 1980 has been confirmed not so much by the U.S.'s opening loss to Canada-when the Americans were listless and Star Pat LaFontaine was off his feed-but by the Czechoslovak game two days later. "We didn't beat ourselves this time," said Coach Lou Vairo after that 4-1 defeat. "We competed hard, but we lost to a great team." They tied Norway in Game 3, and any thought of advancing to the medal round ended. At the Zetra Rink, a charming green bandbox, U.S. tourists waved their flags wanly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snows, and Glows, of Sarajevo | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...doctors discovered that the pale and distressingly listless baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Ordeal | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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