Word: lax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drew up plans to tighten the lax draft laws. Enlistments have been lagging so far behind quotas that even the Marines will have to fill their ranks with draftees. The President's speech brought a rush of volunteers to Army, Navy and Air Force recruiting centers, but it was still not enough...
...condition of the family-where it lived or how much money it made--in not of much consequence in making boys delinquent. What really turned them the wrong way were fathers whose discipline was too strict or too lax, parents who did not pay much attention to the boy or how his leisure time was spent, the Glueeka said...
...Cepeda, she replied: "Look well, it may be your last chance!" A short time later, against the wishes of her aristocratic father, 18-year-old Teresa entered a Carmelite convent. But the Carmelites, noted for being the most austere order of women in the Roman Catholic Church, had grown lax and easygoing in 16th Century Spain, and Teresa eventually found herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented by constant bad health, St. Teresa of Avila was busy and effective...
Today Massachusetts legislators think that Harvard's attitude toward leftist tendencies among its students and teachers is lax, its tax status is as it should be, and its admissions policy is fair, a CRIMSON poll of the Commonwealth's lawmakers indicates...
Gordon L. Brumm '53, the manager, commented, "It seems very lax on the part of officials of the hygiene and athletic departments not to have a doctor on duty at all times while contests are going on in the afternoon. Dick's injury was serious and may have been made more so by the delay...