Word: lax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provoked into the attack; 2) that Army & Navy commands in Hawaii (headed by Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter Short) were remiss in failing "to effect a state of readiness"; 3) that the Army War Plans Division under Lieut (then Brigadier) General Leonard T. Gerow was lax in failing to prod General Short into greater readiness...
...blue & black striped tie, black & white sport shoes. Later, as he read to a reporter passages from one of his past speeches, Jinnah screwed a monocle into his right eye. He wears Moslem dress only because his enemies sneer that Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have a beard; Jinnah does not go to the Mosque; Jinnah drinks whiskey!") With his perfect English, which he speaks better than his native Gujerati, his slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school...
Politely the General listened. He had heard their complaints before. Justice Minister François de Menthon was too reluctant in purging collaborationists, too lax in setting up adequate tribunals. Food Minister Paul Ramadier was too slow in allaying hunger, too inefficient in building up a distribution system. Information Minister Pierre Henri Teitgen was too partial in distributing newsprint, too sluggish in breaking up the paper trusts. The Government had not removed these men. Gravely Assembly Speaker Felix Gouin observed: "Our deliberations are useless if no heed is paid to them...
...slim. A large number have put in a bid only to get in under the statute of limitations, while they mull over whether to push their case. Others have filed merely for the record, i.e., to protect themselves against suits of stockholders who might otherwise feel the corporation was lax. Some tax experts guess that, at most, corporations may prove their claims to $3 billions. This is well worth the try, although the net gain will be far less. In many cases, corporations will have normal income taxes and surtaxes taken out on cash returned...
...commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said angrily: "If the Army says it has difficulty in making its orders stick, then I say: 1) it's a hell of a poor army which can't enforce its own orders; 2) how many commanders who have been lax have been shifted to other posts? Mighty few." Bad to Better. As of last week, the situation was better than it had been, but still bad. The surprising thing was that there had not been more disorder. There had been brawls, sporadic outbursts...