Word: slouching
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...Telly Slouch. He went overseas, though, as an army intelligence officer during World War II, planning the invasion of Malaya that never occurred...
...hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
...father, Emperor Hirohito, is Japan's most famous Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists...
...Belli any slouch at dramatizing psychological injuries. In one case that has become a legal classic, Belli represented a California fireman who became psychotic after he was injured when a truck rammed the fire engine he was riding. To re-create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other...
...those days, pro football was insouciant and insolvent; Halas turned it into a thriving business practically overnight. Drawn by such magical names as Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, fans swarmed to see the Bears play; in 1925, 70,000 turned out for a game in Los Angeles. No slouch himself as a player, Halas set an N.F.L. record by running 98 yds. with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe)-but he is better remembered as perhaps the best illegal user of hands in the game...