Word: sluggish
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...period the Bruins took over and made more than one serious stab through the Crimson defense. Owing to the sparkling work of goalie Jack Penson, none of these drives ended in scoring. The overtime period found the mud and cold telling on the players' efficiency, as their efforts became sluggish and the deadlock was not broken...
...climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
With two more games to play the Gold Coasters led by Captain Wally Chessman are favored to keep their slate clean. Only Winthrop is within overhauling distance of the formerly sluggish team which finished in the league basement last season...
Churchill fought on, and the annoyance of peace-sluggish Britons, who preferred the appeasers, turned to hatred. At first they had heckled him, howled him down, spat at him, struck at him. "Now," says Biographer Kraus, "no dog would take a scrap from his hand." He grew tired of his own voice, tired of his own "everlasting prophecies, and still more thoroughly tired of the awful consistency with which they were fulfilled." But one fact obsessed him-London was defended by only seven anti-aircraft guns...
...money in the last five years, its average net income in 1936-39 is much less than it will be this year. Philip Morris, like many another young, fast-moving company, will therefore get it in the neck. Similarly the railroads (who will do a lot of defense hauling), sluggish for years, will escape the tax, while aircraft makers will be hard hit. Other marked victims: makers of rayon, paper, heavy machinery, electrical equipment. Others comparatively untouched: utilities, oil, department stores, airlines, mines...