Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wyche, like every fan from the beginning of time running out, or at least since the onset of two-minute warnings, got to puzzling over why even sluggish teams always seem able to move the ball at game's end. Increasingly, he has had the Bengals operating in a hurry-up mode from the start, dispensing with huddles, relying on sinister (defined: left-handed) quarterback Norman ("Boomer") Esiason to communicate the plans aloud in a complicated tongue. The effect has been to freeze the other team's situation specialists on the sidelines or create a confusion of too many...
...weren't that pleased overall with our performance in this game," Sasner said. "We were kind of sluggish...
Picasso went through his Rose and Blue Periods, and now his works have taken on a greenish hue. At least that is how investors see them. Betting that fine art will appreciate more quickly than stocks and other investments that have been sluggish since the Black Monday crash, high rollers have sent auction prices for masterworks skyrocketing to unheard of levels. Earlier this month a 1923 Picasso painting titled Birdcage was auctioned for a record $15.4 million, only to be topped four days later by the sale of the 1901 Motherhood for $24.8 million. Then last week a 1905 gouache...
This year's Broadway season has got off to a sluggish start. That may help explain why the best theater in New York City last week was not along the Great White Way but on Centre Street, the stretch of lower Manhattan where the city, state and federal courthouses are clustered. Three legal proceedings under way there have drawn SRO crowds. One stars the 1945 Miss America, Bess Myerson, though she has been upstaged by the gabby daughter of a local judge, testifying for the prosecution. The second, unfolding as a sordid tragedy, centers on Joel Steinberg, a disbarred attorney...
...offense was sluggish," Hafferty added. "They were playing tentatively and took low percentage shots...