Word: torpidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...
...nation which has become cynical or tolerant or complacent in its attitude toward injustice or corruption, whether in public or in private life, which has for any reason become morally torpid, is in grave danger, no matter what its wealth or what its power...
...crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than in anger, may go unheard; but the morning curses, still unuttered, of Freshmen, still unmatriculated, should give it weight...
...thousands listen to Dr. John Richard Brinkley, goat gland rejuvenation exponent, diagnose and prescribe for letter-writing patients over the radio. Occasionally static interferes, wags say, and causes the sick to get the wrong code number for their prescriptions, to treat themselves for dandruff when they are suffering from torpid liver...