Word: sluggish
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...traveler goes on across the sluggish River Son, then turns south into the state of Bihar, the landscape begins to change. The land is dry and almost desert-like. Scattered here & there, like the bare bones of long-dead hills, are piles of gigantic stones. Jackals wander across the fields, and black kites wheel lazily in the sky. Tiny villages huddle beside the road, and when an automobile approaches, naked children cower in fright, then invariably, as panicky chickens do, dart into the car's path. Gaunt women, stripped to the waist, work in the fields...
...Sluggish Movements. Aside from their losses, no one was concerned about the Marines; they could take care of themselves. No one feared a Communist breakthrough anywhere. In Tokyo, Mark Clark said he was not distressed about the loss of Old Baldy. either. But there was quite visible distress in the 7th Division, resulting from tactical confusion and confused statements about what the troops were doing. The division commander, Major General Arthur Trudeau, was publicly rebuked by I Corps' Commander Paul Kendall...
...pulling smartly back to the MLR, to save casualties until they were in shape for a successful counterattack, too many of the 7th's units had tried to stand their ground, throwing in cooks and KPs and yelling for reinforcements. The long sitdown had made the Eighth Army sluggish. The battalion and company commanders were not prepared for quick emergency movement of their equipment and command posts. No corps or division command post had been moved for tactical reasons in nearly two years. Sluggishness could be seen in the movement of field pieces up to the front...
...audience again. Listen to it. Practice on the road and see what comes of it." Rosalind went on tour in John van Druten's Bell, Book and Candle. The reviews were consistently good, but she thinks she was terrible for the first three months: "I'd become sluggish working with the camera. The stage demands that you use 42 new muscles and you can't let down for one minute." After three months, she felt she had learned again how to play with other actors and was relearning how to get laughs: "You have to build...
...fought that afternoon in the same big Santamaría bull ring where, eleven years earlier, in his first professional engagement, he had (as one critic said) "made every part of the arena tremble." Now the bulls were sluggish, and the performances lackluster. Dominguín's leg cramped up and unbalanced him at vital moments; there were times when some of the 15,000 disappointed Bogotanos booed impatiently...