Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This training was easily applied to recognition of aircraft. Untrained pilots, shown pictures of planes for 1/75th of a second, named only one out of three. After training, the score of most increased to 80%. Professor Renshaw is now using his method in the peacetime job of speeding up sluggish readers. One student ("just a nice girl, no genius"), after 33 sessions with the flashing screen, speeded her reading of "heavy literature...
...Spree River and the canals near the university and the palaces of the Kaisers, along whose banks Berliners had once promenaded, now bore a sluggish parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...
...Minister François de Menthon was too reluctant in purging collaborationists, too lax in setting up adequate tribunals. Food Minister Paul Ramadier was too slow in allaying hunger, too inefficient in building up a distribution system. Information Minister Pierre Henri Teitgen was too partial in distributing newsprint, too sluggish in breaking up the paper trusts. The Government had not removed these men. Gravely Assembly Speaker Felix Gouin observed: "Our deliberations are useless if no heed is paid to them...
Spanish moss drooped from the big trees in the gloomy forest; where the country was open, sluggish streams meandered through marshes. Stolid, patient Lieut. General Walter Krueger was expecting an attack. He got it. His opponent's armor knifed into the center of Krueger's positions. It looked bad for Krueger's army. But when the armor tried to exploit its advantage, Krueger capitalized on the water-broken terrain, threw in his air force and destroyed the armor. With air power and airborne infantry, he cut the foe's communications. Then he turned his cavalry loose...
Following the 1943 boom and the tax-inspired buying of last spring, sales of fur coats are off sharply all over the U.S., currently running about 15% below 1943. Response to the annual August fur promotions was sluggish; and in all parts of the country, volume continued to lag in September and October...