Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
Tommy Ayres was the only scorer in a listless first period. Early in the second stanza Captain Dick Mechem pulled the best stunt of the game, skating through the entire Hebron squad for the second score. Then Hebron's defense fell completely to pieces, and the Yardlings rang up three tallies in less than two minutes. Stan Collinson, Dick Whittington and Dave Farrell netted the puck in the Crimson spurt...
When nightfall shut off the brief winter afternoon, the train was sliding swiftly south toward Vermont. Newsmen on the train were bored, listless, let down after the four days of pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have...
...Crimson team took more shots at the basket than its rivals, but its listless, over-confident attitude allowed the Cardinals to have the upper hand throughout the entire game...
...effort to put more life into Harvard's listless passing attack, Harlow spent considerable time on the aerial warfare department. Little Frank Swirles job for this week is the impersonation of 195 pound Bob Peters, the Tigers triple threat captain, as the Jayvees are slated to put on an exhibition of Princeton plays...