Word: stodgier
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...addition to the litany, a committee in charge of leavening some of the church's stodgier rituals commissioned a hymn in folk idiom, entitled When the Changes Come...
...operation just four months, the $12 million venture is moving only 20,000 tons of cargo a month, but Costa predicts that volume will at least triple by 1970. As much sense as Rivalta Scrivia makes, many of Genoa's stodgier merchants have characteristically fought its development every step of the way. But Costa is determined to see it through. "For too long we have regarded the port as a place to make money," says he. "The time has come to begin thinking about what service we can offer." And of course making more money in the process...
...start, instead of dashing as usual into the pacesetter's role, Wilt hung back. Gehrmann, as usual, stuck to Wilt. The pace produced a stodgy (2:07.9) half-mile, and a stodgier (3:12.3) three-quarters. At the three-quarters mark, Wilt spurted into the lead, leaving Gehrmann some seven yards behind. Wilt blazed the last quarter in 58.9. It was quite a sprint but Gehrmann, setting his sights on Wilt's back, gradually made up the yardage. He nabbed Wilt three yards from the finish, nipped him by 6 in. at the tape...
Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...