Word: sluggish
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...gave those sluggish unwashed minds some badly needed valeting...
...officiating was sluggish," Pickett said. "He wasn't quite on his toes, but the officiating is the same thing as breaks. It could have gone very strongly for us," he continued. "We should have all been down a weight. Later on in the season we would have had no trouble with...
...Reginald Rootes ("I get the ideas and Reggie tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms and led the raid on the U.S. economy-car market in the early 1950s, making the family-owned Rootes Group such a profitable venture that Chrysler last year paid $35.2 million for a 30% interest in the company; in London...
...Conrad wrote of the journey upriver to Stanleyville: "It was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on earth and the big trees were kings. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish...
...initial objections of Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, successfully argued President Kennedy into backing a tax cut. And it was Heller who in effect changed the nation's economic course by winning first Kennedy, then Johnson, over to the philosophy of deficit spending as a stimulant for a sluggish economy...