Word: slothly
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...citizens of all races and creeds--to pursue their studies diligently. It is therefore to be regretted that an otherwise worthy publication recently saw fit to sponsor a so-called "Television Trivia Quiz" whose only purpose was to seduce these students from their rightful duties into the paths of sloth represented by Channel Four and the like...
...fact? Not a single new playwright of any magnitude has, to the present moment, been unearthed by the regional theater. Indeed, the number of new plays produced by the overwhelming majority of the regional theaters in any given season compares unfavorably with the pedal extremities of the two-toed sloth...
...Imam also wants to play student sloth both ways. Wouldn't the same tendency that keeps students from doing any reading during the term, keep them from going to lectures with the final exam already out of the way? And certainly those long papers would be postponed until the last moment, making late springtime every bit the academic grind...
...Defense Department permitted such sloth? Defense apologists contend that waste is inherent in a fortress as vast as the Pentagon, especially when it is at war. Warmakers are interested in military results first and bookkeeping second. They are satisfied as long as their contractors are good, prompt, effective suppliers--which defense contractors usually are. Another reason is bureaucratic inertia. The DOD has always conducted business like this...
...women gathered, burbling babes on many laps, in a kaffeeklatsch campaign so stimulating to Romney's cause that an undercover Nixonite grated: "We ought to get this going for Nixon now." Sipping coffee, munching doughnuts, shaking Romney's hand, the women heard him inveigh against godlessness, immorality, sloth, the decline of the family, even the English, whom he characterized as interested only in "two hots and a cot," or two square meals and a place to sleep. When it came to Viet Nam, however, so vague were his exhortations for the most part that even hard-liners...