Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner's rewards: $300 a week, stardom as Tamba, and tier own masseur (since chimps have sluggish blood circulation, the A.S.P.C.A. requires that chimp actors get a good rubdown after swimming scenes). Otherwise, the new star's life will be no tied of orchids. All her money will not even buy her a square meal-she must be kept hungry during the working day, so that the lure of a banana or candy can be used to help along her acting talents...
...only forbade Carter Products to use the word "liver" in the name of its pills, but told Carter's to stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions in which an individual feels "down-and-out, blue, down-in-the-dumps, worn out, sunk, logy, depressed, sluggish, allin, listless, mean, low, cross, tired, stuffy, heavy, miserable, sour, grouchy, irritable, cranky, peevish, fagged out, dull, sullen, what's-the-use, bogged down, grumpy, run down or gloomy...
...grown flabby from sedentary life overdo it when he starts exercising? "Most of them," says Dr. Cureton, "quit long before their hearts stop them." At first the middle-aged softy may develop sore muscles because his circulation is sluggish. But provided that he is not ill, the condition disappears as soon as his strengthened heart begins pumping more blood...
...first period, Harvard was outskating, outshooting, and outpassing Minnesota. The Gophers, sluggish in their reactions, consistently lost faceoffs and missed checks. But as the game wore on, the Harvards seemed to lose their edge, and the final ten minutes were rough and breathtaking...
...planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul...