Word: sluggish
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Back home in the U.S., in Britain, barbed doubts arose over the Italian campaign. Was the Allied enterprise worth the cost? Had Allied strategy failed? Was it, as a carping British M.P. had said, "like an old man approaching a young bride: fascinated, sluggish, apprehensive...
...ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
...bobbed and weaved, grimaced and grunted, swung his hard fists in & out, up & down. Hammering Henry Armstrong looked like old Perpetual Motion himself. But he was not. He was a sluggish, weary old man of 30, plagiarizing his youth. Lithe, 23-year-old Negro Ray Robinson knew it, and held back for ten shadowy, monotonous, one-sided rounds. The customers also knew it and lustily booed the kind of drama they did not come...
...formerly clumsy, sluggish Red Army, subdivided into three army groups, has now been divided into many relatively small, fluid groups of armies which can be fused and split up again as the occasion demands. Three or five or seven groups may be thrown against one objective, regrouped and swung against another enemy sector under these tacticians and technicians of battle...
...World War I by the Versailles Treaty, German companies, heavily subsidized, started South American lines. Slow, with poor safety records, high rates and poor equipment, and routes selected for military and political purposes, their efforts were seldom commercially successful. Only when they reached too near the Panama Canal was sluggish American opinion awakened...