Word: listlessly
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Nurses swish up and down the hall in an endless marathon. White coats wheel frightening machines in and out of doorways. Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
...symptoms of mononucleosis are deceptively common: A sore throat, a little fever, perhaps some perspiring, slightly swollen glands, and a listless, fatigued feeling. These usual Monday morning sensations are often ignored by students, allowing the disease to entrench and become disproportionately difficult to cure...
...this pride, the Andeans through the years have built a tradition that they, rather than natives of the listless lowlands or of luxury-loving Caracas, have a natural claim to run the country...
Johnny Saxton, fighting a counter punching battle, stripped listless Kid Gavilan of his world welterweight title last night on a unanimous decision in a dull 15 round fight in Philadelphia's Convention Hall...
...mixture of discontent, of listless workers, of idle and broken machinery, of incoherent direction, demanded action in Moscow. One day last month Pravda's lead article criticized the slowness of the Kazakhstan sowing and warned that the authorities on the scene would not be allowed to hide behind poor weather as an alibi. Nikita Khrushchev himself found it necessary to rush east to meet with the Kazakh Communist Party and discuss "at length" the problems of the virgin lands...