Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late May or early June the wet monsoons come from the southwest, heralded by thunderstorms, and torrents run down the hillsides, baring the ribs of the earth. The valleys are quagmires then, and the flooded Irrawaddy rolls great sluggish masses of water through its many mouths to the sea. But not for two months yet. The Jap had time to take Burma, if he was not stopped, and he was not stopped last week...
...over bridge voice tube that contact had been made. We took station for depth-charge attack. . . . The sub was close aboard, less than 200 yards distant, on our starboard hand. The contact indicated a well-developed one, of the Nipponese variety (very popular with our ships). . . . The sub was sluggish in her movements-she maneuvered slowly, endeavoring to stay within our turning circle, and cross our wake. After a bit of maneuvering, we made our turn, estimated her course, and attacked. A short dash at full speed, a good barrage in the approved spot, and the attack was finished...
...lack of fresh whole blood for transfusion, medical men thought most of the deaths were caused by the loss of red blood corpuscles. Later they discovered that the loss of the blood fluid was more serious, that when a patient suffers shock from burns, wounds or hemorrhage, the sluggish blood stream prevents the red corpuscles, even when plenty are left, from taking enough oxygen to the body cells...
Coach Harlow was not too pleased with yesterday's last tough practice session before the Princeton game. Both A and B teams look sluggish running plays through Chief Boston's Freshmen, who faced the Varsity for almost an hour of scrimmage until darkness descended on Soldiers' Field...
Speed was the keynote. The delegates gathered at a luncheon. They churned into six kinds of meat, slushed through bowls of caviar, demolished huge mounds of cheese and butter, knocked down vodka, port and Madeira, wolfed dessert. Then, just in case they might feel sluggish, they drank Russian cocktails...