Word: sluggish
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Said Hoover: Even with the U.S. commitment, Western Europe's rearmament in the past year had been sluggish and unwilling. "There is in Europe today no such public alarm as has been fanned up in the United States. None of those nations has declared emergencies . . . They do not propagandize war fears . . . Not one . . . conducts such exercises in protection from bombs as we have...
...this writer's imagination, but the first movement seemed symptomatic of what was to come. Cooperation between Primrose and the entourage behind him seemed spotty, the transitions inept, and the pace sluggish. However, the movement concluded without any major mishap...
...Martin, the Rev. Gerald Riddell, Baptist missionary from Caddo, Texas, invited the public to attend holiday dedication services. The first night, a crowd massed before the chapel and threw stones through the windows. Missionary Riddell telephoned both the police and the U.S. embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...
...Bellboys, improving as the season progressed, lost only one game and tied strong Winthrop. Pierson's relatively sluggish offense has been paced by fast halfback Charlie Howland...
Electronic engineers loathe mechanical moving parts. One that has always bothered them is the light, vibrating diaphragm in the throat of a loudspeaker. Compared to the almost weightless electrons that flash through radio tubes, the loudspeaker membranes are sluggish. Their slow and clumsy response distorts the delicate signals brought to them by the electrons; the ordinary mechanical loudspeakers cannot reproduce the full range of music or the human voice. The ideal loudspeaker, the engineers have long believed, should have a diaphragm almost as weightless as the electrons themselves...