Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the picture and sound were technically clear, transcontinental TV got only laggard help from its human machines. H. V. Kaltehborn's running commentary tended to obscure rather than illumine the action. The announcers, in their interviews with delegates, managed to say almost nothing, and that dully. Due to an inept translation, Russia's Andrei Gromyko was made to sound even more illogical than usual...
...priest will say Low Mass, while a second priest serves as commentator. Planned for future telecasts in the series: baptism, confirmation and-perhaps-marriage, in order to give the meaning of the sacraments "in a realistic way." But Catholic churchmen had a word of warning for laggard Catholics: Mass by TV is not a substitute for attendance at church on Sunday...
...every wall calamity teetered: Korea, the strained U.S. budget, laggard Western European defense, the danger of German rearmament, the weakness of the Middle East and Africa, the limitations of U.S. atomic bombing, the possibility of atomic attacks on the U.S. No doubt the inspectors were right. Disaster lurked in all these places, and in others too. The U.S. horizon, however, could not be ringed with nothing but catastrophe. Some of that smoke was in the eyes of the beholders...
...major work by a great French novelist is making its first appearance in English. But because of curious circumstances and the laggard energy for which publishers are noted, there has been a slight delay of 115 years between French composition and English publication. This is how it happened...
...order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and talk to him. Tilted back in his swivel chair at his cluttered desk, he would listen patiently to laggard students, troubled facultymen, Michigan farmers and taxpayers. The purpose of a land-grant college, he said, should be "service to all people." Last week, after nine years, M.S.C. had reason to know what 47-year-old "Uncle John" Hannah meant...