Word: sluggish
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...mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands of southern Brazil, it curls around the low hills in Paraguay's southeastern corner, where the Guarani Indians first named it "Mother of the Sea," then heads south through Argentina to the Plata. The Paraguay rises in the sluggish swamps of the Mato Grosso, flows between heavy stands of quebracho trees through the heart of Paraguay, joins the Paraná where it enters Argentina...
...matmen were now assured of at least a tie, but 175-pound Dick Aldrich seemed a little sluggish. He was pinned in just under six minutes...
...many years Dr. Percival Lowell's hypothesis, that the "canals" on Mars' surface were irrigation canals, prolonged the Man from Mars' existence. He is not wholly dead yet. Animal life may have flourished there millions of years ago when conditions were more genial. Perhaps some unimaginably sluggish survivors are still alive, adapted to an ultra-slow rate of oxygen and water metabolism...
...Hara, of Boston, turned tail to the fishing banks last week and headed for home. On a dark night, in near-zero weather, she thrashed into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted. Frantically the helmsman tried to put her over, but she was sluggish with ice, heavy with 50,000 lb. of fish in her hold. Next moment the Mary E. O'Hara crashed into a barge anchored off Finn's Ledge...
...germs of the staphylococcus family. By brewing an enzyme called urease. the staphylococci split up urea in the saliva into an ammonium compound, which neutralizes the erosive acid. Dr. Stephan's conclusion: teeth may decay when the saliva does not contain enough urea, or when the staphylococci are sluggish...