Word: torpor
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Went up to Lamont fifth level to study, feeling a strange, ominous foreboding. Fluorescent lights droning like insects on a summer afternoon, my head bowed slowly into my book, and I fell into a dream-troubled torpor...
Morris thrives on such displays of university spirit. Along with Little Egypt's awakening from economic and cultural torpor, it is proof of his promise that S.I.U. "must do more than promote good teaching. We must take the university to the people...
...style and promise of a shotgun wedding. As 300 delegates from 66 nations gathered in Geneva last week for the long-awaited trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)- labeled the Kennedy Round because the late President gave them impetus -the air was heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham White, whose job was to open...
...loan associations, which have recently jacked their interest rates as high as 5% to tempt savers. Amid their competition for customers, all the banks are worried about growing Government regulation: the Justice Department is striving to block several bank mergers, and the House Banking Committee, after years of torpor, is striking out with half-a-dozen investigations into many phases of banking...
Occasional scenes did penetrate the torpor induced by the first half-hour, surely one of the dullest film segments produced by Hollywood in a long while. But for the most part PT 109 was horrendous, devoted primarily to showing off Cliff Robertson's repertoire of facial expressions, all of which seemed to be subtle variations of a smirkish half-smile...