Word: slouchingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bout the defense line, with the two All-Ivies, Baggot and Kaye. Bob Baggot, the crazy dude from California on the weak end, Charley Kaye, the big guy in the middle. He told me about Russ Savage, second-team All-Ivy and underrated, and Steve Kaseta, captain and no slouch himself...
Which is why--as we settled into a hedonistic slouch on Monday night to glutton ourselves with the faces of stars who were there, the cynical speculations about stars who weren't there, the silly name-pronouncing slip-ups, and the predictable choices--we couldn't quite figure out what was going on. The show seemed to be taking itself seriously: and we don't mean as entertainment, but as a self-consciously elitist and self-indulgent social event. The new generation of topical, issues-oriented liberals had arrived, and they seemed to be working out their liberal guilt...
...field hockey outfit had but a single triumph in '75. Change that to a single setback in '76. The hoopsters didn't know where the basket was last year. This winter they rarely miss. Squash is no slouch, soccer and track are up and coming, and three drinks at Father's--on Ladies' Night of course--says the lacrosse team will win more than it loses...
...Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded a swift return to capital punishment, and in came the exterminators. Due process? The FBI could not be called in to investigate, cracked a spokesman...
...York City's public school employees, scarcely looks like an earthshaker. In fact, he could easily pass for what he once was: a full-time schoolteacher. He wears thick glasses and is virtually blind in one eye; his face droops in a hangdog expression, and a habitual slouch seems to shrink his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. What places Shanker in the megaton range is the power he wields...