Word: slothly
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...permit the resentment of some in high places to legitimate criticism to embitter you into sloth and inaction...
Were the Japanese growing weary of war and content with their victories? A Navy spokesman in Tokyo implied as much, warning them against sloth, needling them to further effort...
...comments on the Catholic missionaries are enthusiastic. In New Mexico the Franciscans soon "did not want to be disturbed in their comfortable sloth" In California a decade before U.S. annexation "the Indian converts drifted away ; the churches were falling into ruins ; few priests were left." And despite the undoubted heroism of the French missionaries among the Iroquois, they "snatched no more than a few individual souls for salvation...
Concealment. That concealing coloration is not accident is in part proved, Cott says, by the astonishing variety of color-causes. Some caterpillars are green because their blood absorbs chlorophyll from their food; others because they are transparent, revealing the green food inside them. A South American sloth acquires a concealing greenish hue from symbiotic algae which live...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...