Word: sluggish
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...Stahlmen, headed for their busiest week of the season, looked plenty sluggish yesterday afternoon, dropping a 13 to 8 merry-go-round to the Boston Coast Guard, in a game called after eight innings because of rain...
...Hungary, and his clique of aristocratic Magyar officials had long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...over the American invasion of North Africa, one important point may be overlooked. If the invasion had been undertaken a week earlier, it would radically have altered the course of the American elections (for there can be little doubt that the large Republican vote was primarily a protest against sluggish prosecution...
...page 30 shows how the pitched battles of the Solomons have favored the U.S. Not included there, however, are the losses which were suffered in the Solomons period when U.S. forces were misused in sluggish defensive tactics-when the Wasp was sunk and several other ships damaged, in mere routine patrolling...