Songfic Challenge: Prompt 5

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For today, a song that can provide fic inspiration in a different way ...

We Didn't Start The Fire (Billy Joel)

( Lyrics under here )

And bonus video for the updated version by Fall Out Boy:

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Word of the Day 04/20/24 Dilatory

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Dilatory (adjective)
dil·a·to·ry [dil-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] (previously 10-17-13)

adjective
1. tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
2. intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision: a dilatory strategy.

OTHER WORDS FROM DILATORY
dil·a·to·ri·ly, adverb
dil·a·to·ri·ness, noun
un·dil·a·to·ri·ly, adverb
un·dil·a·to·ry, adjective

WORDS RELATED TO DILATORY
backward, behindhand, dallying, delaying, deliberate, laggard, late, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loitering, moratory, neglectful, negligent, putting off, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish

See synonyms for: dilatory / dilatorily / dilatoriness on Thesaurus.com

ORIGIN: 1250–1300; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin dilatorius, equivalent to dila-, suppletive stem of differre to postpone (see differ) + -torius-tory

HOW TO USE DILATORY IN A SENTENCE
Decision making is slow, acquisition processes are dilatory, and maintenance of the equipment bought is poor.
INDIA’S TRYST WITH TERROR | KANWAL SIBAL | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

The tedious, dilatory time and money-wasting “come later on” procedure of times gone by no longer obtains.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS | JOHN FOREMAN

But the policy of Austria was, at that time, strangely dilatory and irresolute.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II. | THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

The Greek Government, British retaliation which was all but bankrupt, was dilatory in settling these claims.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAR | EDWIN EMERSON

An early dinner was eaten, and the dishes washed with an alacrity in agreeable contrast to the dilatory methods of the morning.
PEGGY RAYMOND'S VACATION | HARRIET L. (HARRIET LUMMIS) SMITH

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.