Word: sluggish
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...terrified fascination, mumbling prayers that the engulfing flood would spend itself before it reached their homes. Hot ashes filled the air for miles around. A wall of steaming, writhing lava rolled fearfully along the Valley of Hell, smashing fences and houses before it, burying vineyards forever under a smoking, sluggish mass...
Smalltown newspapers are fun to publish. Along with the small town and county and state news there sometimes comes a chance to champion a cause, to cry a crime, to excite a people, usually a sluggish, smalltownish people. Such a chance came less than a month ago to "the youngest newspaper staff in the country" (not a man over 32)-the staff of the Cherokee Times of Gaffney, a hilltown on the northern edge of South Carolina with a population of 10,000 (including Negroes...
Playwright Kirkland's scene is the Alton House, St. Louis. The year is 1849. The story as he tells it grows sluggish in the time required of a three-act play. This is mainly due to two long soliloquies by Frankie in the second...
...Democratic politics. No longer are there fatherly scoldings from Albany, stern advice to "cut the nonsense and get to work." Mayor Walker, in full command, has placed his own man, John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when the U. S. Supreme Court rejected a 7? fare plea, upheld the nickel (TiME, April 15). He has the support of the Hearst papers (American, Evening Journal). Criticism...
Horrified servants watched as the Papal barouche, careening, bouncing, made the circuit once and then crashed splintering into a heavy stone portico supporting the stairs down which His Holiness was expected momentarily to descend. Blood spattered and gushed to form a thick, sluggish pool upon the flagstones. One of the Irish horses had been gashed and killed in the clattering impact. The barouche was thoroughly wrecked...