Word: shiftlessly
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...doing the entire CEP program a major disservice. So far, only a handful of students in Government and Economics have asked for tutorial; perhaps next year, if not encouraged, none may request it. And, as is often pointed out, a non-honors concentrator is not necessarily an incapable, shiftless, or uninterested student. He can often benefit from tutorial instruction as much as the honors candidate...
...costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...
Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
Fausto, Moraldo, Alberto, Leopoldo and Riccardo are five young men who live in a modest Italian sea-side resort of apparently little opportunity. They are shiftless and lusty, though they seldom show this latter quality to the camera. Their chief aim is thwarting their parent's attempts to civilize them by harnessing them with jobs. They just like to drink, laugh, dance...