Word: sagging
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...this spring. Harvard's sole first place of the day came late in the afternoon from a lightweight four, in a boat stroked by Rick Grogan and including captain Andy "Hot Rats" Narva. George Host and Todd Howard. Coxswain Paul Chessin said the race went ideally with no sag in the power...
...more voting-age whites, Cooper and a team of friends managed to add another 2,000 blacks to the voting rolls, closing the gap. At the same time, he so thoroughly denounced Capps for allowing industry to leave the town, roads to deteriorate and police morale to sag that whites felt little incentive to vote at all. Cooper won by 544 votes out of 10,648 cast...
...starring in the poorer skits. Allen loses the involvement that makes his work so funny. He can put the actors through their motions, but without his presence the scripts sag badly, and they are made all the more pale juxtaposed with the skits in which Allen plays the lead. Had Allen limited the movie to his four skits, or substituted the poor ones, with material equal to the funnier four, than he would have created a comic masterpiece. As it is, he has only four-sevenths of a very funny film...
Stoppard pushes this and related theses with antic wordplay, inspired zaniness and crackerjack wit. The evening would sag in spots if it were not for Hordern. What might have been simply a caricature of an absent-minded professor emerges as a warmly affectionate portrait of the last living humanist. And Rigg is lovely to look at, especially in the nude, and to listen to as she delivers her lines with a resolute intelligence that seems to unbend the pretzel twists of thought...
...professional tennis circuit; it was a vicarious victory for all middle-aged athletes who are over the hill or who never even got to the crest. Rosewall (who is nicknamed "Muscles" because of his slight build) won the $50,000 first prize by refusing to sag in a match that was wearing on both body and mind. The five sets lasted for a stamina-sapping three hours and 37 minutes, and the last two sets were decided by the nerve-jangling tiebreaker scoring system. Final score...