Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson did not play its best ball, and for a long time in the second and third periods the losers were walking up to the ball instead of running in and giving it a hard kick. During this time they were also sluggish in following the ball downfield and missed several scoring chances...
Cumbersome and sluggish in its early years, Diesel's engine did not seriously challenge steam until General Motors in Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...
...seat of government, it happily shares the fruits of the boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once a mainstay of the mountain Indians, is dying...
...real solo concerto for keyboard, owing to the general prominence and the extended cadenza allotted to it. McIntosh's runs were as even as pearls, and he exerted admirable dynamic restraint throughout (his versatility even extended to playing the horn in the other works). The initial orchestral tempo was sluggish, but McIntosh picked it up in his cadenza and Greenebaum kept it for the closing tutti. The slow movement, for the soloists only, should have had, to be authentic, a cello doubling the bottom line...