Word: plodder
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...also produced a question from a puzzled plodder at last summer's Edinburgh Writers' Conference. "Are you serious?'' the earnest fellow asked...
...lawyers learned, life with an imaginative, volatile, high-risk driver is likely to be more stimulating and interesting than with a conventional plodder−but also shorter...
...Senatorial contest in Massachusetts is just such an election. The incumbent, Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall, is a plodder who has given the Eisenhower Administration strong support. The Democratic candidate, Foster Furcolo, has had an excellent voting record, but has spotted it by surrendering to the rankest form of political expediency...
...pupils in his Paris school, Pierre Larousse was a "small, dumpy man, his beard unkempt, his eyes sparkling-an introverted, sinister plodder strongly suspected of subversive ideas." But subversive or not, Pierre Larousse had one idea for which France has long been grateful. "I want," he announced in 1863, "to teach everyone everything...
...Manhattan, World Lightweight (135 Ibs.) Champion Jimmy Carter, a 29-year-old plodder, knocked out George Araujo, a 22-year-old prancer, in the 13th round, for Carter's sixth victory in seven title fights...