Word: sluggard
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...Columbia professors was not good in either morals or economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism and Mr. Hibben indicates that there is the same fluttering of wings in the Princeton cloister." The professorial urge for debt revision "begins with the idea that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash for the good opinion of the world, a boss prostitute taking its only chance for redemption...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...
...Commissar (Minister) for Transport and later president of the Supreme Economic Council, a post which he held at the time of his death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...
...false. "Sunset" is still the accepted term for "earthrise", and ostriches continue to bury their heads in the sand everywhere but in real life in spite of all that scientists say to the contrary, but these are exceptions. Even the bee has now been unmasked as a sluggard, not at all living up to his nursery reputation for ceaseless industry...
...merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard in the matter of wit; but both his humour and his wit never suggest the smoking-room and the dinner-party, but rather the open sky and a prospect of shining hills. I think he has something of the peasant's obstinacy and is not altogether free from a certain...