Word: sluggish
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Watching the cheerful Londoners from their own sluggish exchange, many a Manhattan broker recalled that the City had often proved a better and an earlier prophet than the Street in the past. Some reflected that English brokers have sons and cousins in the R. A. F., may get firsthand information on the progress of the air war. A few, juggling figures, tried to prove that London's price rise meant the beginning of inflation...
...small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone" - decides in his heart that the democratic...
...vast and variegated job of rearming the U. S. the part that U. S. industry must play is vast and variegated enough. It means building a strange, specialized, plane-ship-and-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast, sluggish bread-&-butter economy, and meshing them. Yet the first step needed for the industrial job was by last week clear: constructing new plant and equipment. But, after seven weeks of hard desk work and high talk in Washington, few new factories for war materials had taken shape...
Business experience popped fitfully in & out of this political career: at 23 he was secretary of the Railway Committee of Central South African Railways; at 53 he was briefly Governor of the National Bank of Scotland. An improvising administrator, he works by fits & starts, grows inert and sluggish unless...
...such incidents multiplied, all Europe looked anxiously toward the valley of that great, sluggish river which Germans call Donau, Slavs Dunav, Magyars Duna, Rumanians Dunarea, English -speaking peoples Danube (see map). The nations of the Danube Basin knew their danger, knew also that for their chances of remaining unmolested a little longer they could thank the richness of their valley, since would-be conquerors might well destroy the prize they covet...