Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quit his post as the party's deputy leader, is out to cause Wilson trouble; last week the party had to expel Desmond Donnelly, a maverick who leans to the right, for refusing to knuckle under to party discipline. If Wilson fails to revive Britain's sluggish economy and restore his position by October, he will be under unrelenting pressure from many Laborites to hand over his job to someone...
...boss's daughter and the lady of the shotgun. Having become a key man in The Firm, with access to its inexhaustible assets, Charlock discovers the paradox of freedom: when all things are possible, nothing is possible. Denied the abrasive stimulation of uncertainty and risk, his creativity grows sluggish. A trip to the gambling tables owned by The Firm proves to be an exercise in boredom. Life for Charlock is reduced to a finite game that, like ticktacktoe, is impossible to lose once the rules have been learned...
Bundy really conceives of top-down action in social matters. The government must take autonomous action in the public interest which can then be justified to a sluggish populace in terms of the government's general authority to act. This is why Bundy put so much emphasis on the need to educate the public to accept a wider role for the government. The people must be like passengers in a bus who give the driver authority to take them by any route he chooses to a chosen destination...
...other unbeaten grapplers. Pat Coleman at 152 and heavyweight Tom Tripp, scored impressive wins. After Coleman flattened John Duncan 3-1, Tripp won on a decisive 11-1 victory over the Bulldog's sluggish Tom Kunkle...
Harvard was sluggish, so Wilson inserted his youngbloods -- sophomores Jerry O'Neil, Ernie Hardy, and junior Johnson. It was a smart move. After about five minutes of frustratingly sloppy ball-handling and shooting, Hardy began to clear the boards. Johnson moved the ball, and O'Neil heated...