Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formerly clumsy, sluggish Red Army, subdivided into three army groups, has now been divided into many relatively small, fluid groups of armies which can be fused and split up again as the occasion demands. Three or five or seven groups may be thrown against one objective, regrouped and swung against another enemy sector under these tacticians and technicians of battle...
...World War I by the Versailles Treaty, German companies, heavily subsidized, started South American lines. Slow, with poor safety records, high rates and poor equipment, and routes selected for military and political purposes, their efforts were seldom commercially successful. Only when they reached too near the Panama Canal was sluggish American opinion awakened...
...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...