Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
With two others (John Rivers of Philadelphia and Lee Diamond of New York), Schmid was lying mouse-quiet in a machine-gun nest on the bank of a sluggish river dividing the American-held beachhead from Jap territory. The long-expected attack came early in the morning. Said Schmid...
...Sluggish action marked the first half. Thayer Drake's penalty shot, which sailed futilely over the cross-bar, was the nearest thing to a Varsity goal. The Pointers lived up to their reputation for driving power, amazing the Harvard defense with long range firing...
...assistant executive editor of the New York World-Telegram, went to Denver two years ago to pump some life blood into Scripps-Howard's doddering Rocky Mountain News. With the help of Business Manager Bill Hailey, he brightened up the stodgy, old (83 years) sheet, raised its sluggish circulation to a new high (about...