Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrenched caste system, the antipathy of the educated toward manual labor, the 8,000,000 wandering sadhus or holy men (80% reputed to be frauds) who live in idleness. These and the leaden weight of superstition and ignorance make of Indian life, in Nehru's despairing words, "a sluggish stream, living in the past, moving slowly through the accumulations of dead centuries...
...After a sluggish beginning for both teams, second line center Stew Forbes gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead when he took a pass from Jim Dwinnell and laced the puck past goalie Jim Logue into the lower right hand corner of the cage at 10:23 of the first period...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...
...first period when he leaped high on the Harvard 40-yard line to intercept a Larry Purdy pass out of the hands of Penn's speedy halfback, Dave Coffin. Boulris got away from Coffin and returned the interception back to the Penn 42. The Crimson attack, which had been sluggish thus far, could move the ball only seven yards on the tries, but with fourth down and three yards to go on the Penn 35, Boulris smashed over right guard, tore loose from several linebackers, and outdistanced the deep defenders to score at 8:52. Sam Halaby...
Once arrived at Henley-on-Thames, both crews found their food and quarters excellent and settled down to a final week's training over the unfamiliar Henley course. The first day on the water, both eights seemed a bit sluggish, but after several days of double practice they settled into their earlier form...