Word: sluggish
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...flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent by the U.S. and the Duquesne Light Co. on the Ohio Valley plant, the nation's sluggish private atomic energy program will show its first practical results...
Harvard got off to a flying start in the first minutes of the opening quarter, passing through the sluggish Brown defence in what looked like a repeat of the Princeton game, when the only goal was scored soon after the kickoff...
...word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...
...hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power is called...
...cost of power makes the plant a paying proposition already. Some of the materials needed, e.g., bauxite, have already been discovered in the Cameroons, will eventually be used to make the plant's operation even cheaper. The plant is a big boost to the Cameroons' sluggish economy, now based almost entirely on agriculture. A tax-paying industry that will pour money into the public treasury, Alucam will also give work to 500, increase rail and harbor traffic, further encourage the search for minerals...