Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. All but forgotten now is the Eisenhower who spent much of his presidency playing bridge and golf, who collected handsome presents from rich friends, who presided over an era that is still synonymous with complacency and sloth. The same amnesia covers many of his policies. Forgotten, too, is the Eisenhower who was reluctant to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions, who would not stand up to Senator McCarthy or oppose the spread of blacklisting, who bequeathed Richard Nixon to the country. Just about all that history remembers...
Phooey. Without defending the Seven Sins (although a few, like Gluttony and Sloth, do have their good points), it must be pointed out that there is no historical or logical reason for supposing that bad personal judgment has any connection whatsoever to policy judgment...
...Pause. "Unfortunately I'm standing on my record." Even the departed Gary Hart was not spared. Instead of the Seven Dwarfs as a designation for the field, Biden noted, the seven deadly sins might be better. "I've got six of them covered -- greed, envy, anger, avarice, gluttony and sloth." Pause. "We've got an opening for lust...
...successfully avoids turning sentiment into a soppy trip down memory lane. And a decade later, the reader gets the impression that the characters are ready to put it all behind them. "I never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that I saw in that room, in which I began my most difficult years, were two opened windows and the loop of a shade fluttering in the breeze...
...recruits admitted they were afraid of heights. Now they are about to endure what the Marines call the "slide for life," clambering up a 35-ft.-high wooden tower and then descending headfirst down wires that stretch across a muddy ditch. A recruit clings like a frightened tree sloth to the wire. Then, slowly, his grip loosens and he plunges into the muddy water. "You just let go. You didn't even try," snaps the angry instructor. "Back to the squad bay, Private...