Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sluggish freshman football team found a potent offensive combination in the fourth quarter and rolled over the Tufts yearlings 25-0 in Somerville yesterday...
...Democrats and Republicans began sniping at each other and the campaign heated up, even the French got interested. "One gets the impression it stimulates sluggish livers," said a Paris editor. "I think we should be allowed to campaign and vote for the American President too. You are selfish not to share the pleasure...
...words more forceful; he induces a given response from the crowd with his own facial expressions--sometimes an angry scowl--and his multiple hand gestures. As the day wears on and he becomes increasingly tired, he pushes himself harder, and this is often noticeable in his more sluggish rate of speach...
Gripping heavy wooden clubs to fend off water moccasins and rattlesnakes, 400 sailors sludged through eastern Mississippi swampland last week, poking and peering. From 14-ft. aluminum skiffs, equipped with walkie-talkies, search teams dipped grappling hooks into the sluggish, brown Pearl River. State highway patrolmen went back to knocking on doors, searching for a clue they might have missed. For the fourth time President Johnson dispatched new contingents of FBI agents, who set about quizzing every employee at the two principal manufacturing plants in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. But still there was no trace of the three young civil rights...
...going nowhere for six puzzling weeks, the Dow-Jones index of industrial shares reached new records in four out of five trading sessions, climbed 101 points for the week to close at an alltime high of 841.47. The gain was all the more impressive because the market is usually sluggish just before a warm-weather holiday. By crossing the 840 mark, which brokers had viewed as a psychological hurdle, the market appeared well poised for further advance...