Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole, the film has an oddly split personality. As a story of individuals it is at best sincere, ordinary and likable, without exciting much interest. But whenever the individual actors are ignored and the camera watches the hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving...
...listless first-half performance and a crafty Princeton forward named George Lawry cost the Varsity basketball team its second consecutive Ivy League defeat last night at the Boston Garden. The Tigers, leading...
...Lewis words were enough, of course, to carry the business and set the strategy of the four-day meeting. Automatically, the listless delegates racked up some 1,400 resolutions, concerned mostly with new wage-&-hour demands to be sprung on the mine owners before the Government steps out of the coal-mining business. But the delegates stamped and whistled happily only when the resolutions: 1) praised Lewis; 2) called for a "substantial" raise in Lewis' $25,000-a-year salary; 3) proposed to create a new U.M.W. holiday to honor Lewis (probably Feb. 12, Lewis' birthday...
...Listless. In Chicago, a South Side butcher asked OPA for a ceiling-price list, admitting he had nothing to sell but would like something to read...
...early weeks of listless campaigning, the confidence seemed well-placed. There were no fireworks, no weighty speeches, no burning issues. Amiable Ed Thye and his running-mate, gubernatorial candidate Luther Youngdahl, toured the back country, slapping backs, shaking hands, remembering faces. In the Minneapolis Tribune polls, Thye's popularity climbed: from...