Word: slouching
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...else-even to the horselike galloping which had become as de rigueur among seven-year-old girls (who also whinnied occasionally) as the slouch among debutantes of the '20s-they were faithful to their hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...
...quiet, almost icily cool man with a craggy bald head and an elegant drawing-room slouch, Lovett had long since proved to be as effective with a diplomat or a Congressman as he was with a general or an industrialist. In his new job he could be expected to tighten still further the liaison between State and Defense which had already improved perceptibly since the departure of Louis Johnson...
...casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time for anything else...
...plenty of noise. Trains, buses, autos and old-style ox wagons poured 250,000 South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...
...revue. It has a nice sassy way of cutting up-once or twice, even, into murderously small pieces. But it can be genuinely funny as well as sassy, and it disdains rented jokes and reupholstered sketches. Campus bred,* the show has much more pertness than polish; it tends to slouch around with its socks hanging down, and it has the amateur's faith in the pen to the exclusion of the blue pencil...