Word: prolix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
...TIME propose to adapt itself to the "busy man?" The 16 pages of the prospectus, more prolix than the magazine it described, boiled down to three basic ideas...
...work last week descended from the committee level to the subcommittees. It was not lost from the sight of a vigilant and prolix press, but it was in that tentative, amorphous state where the detailed picture of it on one day would be out of focus the next...
Later the Count fled to the U.S. under an assumed name. He was seen at the Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...
...loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes and nurseries for poor children, recreational clubs. Through the Church and the Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects...