Word: sluggish
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Reptile Curator James Oliver of New York's Bronx Zoo is impatiently awaiting his tuatara. The scaly, sluggish beasts are so ancient a breed, he says, that their forebears flourished when the sea was full of icthyosaurs. They were stepped on by dinosaurs, and their young were probably snatched by flying, reptilian pterodactyls. Some experts believe that all modern snakes and lizards are descended from the tuatara's order (Rhynchocephalia...
...army, Naguib became Egypt's ruler; vowing a distaste for politics, he has become through default his country's leading politician. Last week the reluctant ruler had the enthusiastic sanction of the people and the press, the anxious respect of the politicians, and the hopeful if sluggish attention of the Western powers...
...Spare the Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
...melodrama. Reformist M.P. Pettigrew speedily rouses the fury of the village women, while his wife works havoc with the menfolk. The Greek professor (who is Author Linklater disguised in a tunic) orates at length on life, love and Labor; the poachers cast their nocturnal nets in the moorland stream. Sluggish Laxdale plunges into a 'hubbub of mingled rage, passion, skulduggery and Euripidean oratory...
Three for Bedroom C (Brenco; Warner) is a sluggish farce set on a fast transcontinental train. On board are a high-powered Hollywood glamour queen (Gloria Swanson) and a handsome Harvard biochemistry professor named Oliphant J. Thrumm. Before the train is well under way, the actress and the professor (James Warren) find that they are doing things to each other's chemistry...