Word: sluggish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the last glacier age 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, sluggish rivers of Arctic ice created a temporary land crossing between Siberia and Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest...
...State's No. 2 man, Bowles was supposed to be goading the department's sluggish bureaucracy into action, leaving Boss Dean Rusk free to follow the global swirl of high policy. But Bowles, used to being top man, never stopped spinning off grand ideas, reshaping the world to his taste. (He kept pushing for his pet Mekong River project in Southeast Asia so hard that even his aides insist he really has only two speeches: the Mekong River speech and the non-Mekong River speech...
...Liberty Bell 7 approached its apogee, traveling at 5,310 miles per hour, Grissom took manual control with a new and hopefully more precise set of controls. Weightless by now, he found the manual controls sluggish, had difficulty turning his capsule by means of its small hydrogen peroxide rocket nozzles. "Having a little bit of trouble with the manual controls," he reported. Seven minutes after launch, he managed to point the capsule and fire the retrorockets. They slowed his speed only slightly, but if he had been in full orbital flight, they would have curved him down into the atmosphere...
These last four dominate what Joseph Everingham as Director has delineated as the first act, and though he moves them about energetically enough, the pace seems sluggish and tired. In the latter two acts, however, they recede--and the play becomes ridiculous. Donald Soule has provided a perfect wicker-cum-art nouveau...
Soft Spots. Government economists agreed that a fast upswing will begin this fall-but they also expected some summer sluggishness in between. Reason: the here-and-now U.S. economy has nearly as many soft spots as a well-matured cantaloupe. The stock market is on a high but flat plateau. Steel production is trending down into its normal summer doldrums. Price discounts have softened not only steel but copper, aluminum, rubber, paper and chemicals. Most sluggish of all is the industry that since World War II has customarily led the U.S. out of its recessions: housing...