Word: lax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claims Author Nicholas, were victims of the "radio game": Abwehr, the German counterintelligence, when it had captured an agent and his set, often kept right on sending messages to London, using captured codes, and arranging for air drops of agents and supplies. London's S.O.E. security seemed incredibly lax. Agents had been taught to misspell words in predetermined sections of each message. Once, when the Abwehr sent a fake message through without the misspellings, London merely chided: "You forgot your double security check. Be more careful...
Olin, who claimed that the Administration has been lax in enforcing its ban on the illegal type, recommended that "the University policy be of a more strict nature" and that "the flow of refrigerators be checked at the beginning of each year...
...Beat 'Em . . . In High Springs, Fla., ex-Mayor Juanita Easterlin, who last year campaigned unsuccessfully for re-election by charging that enforcement of the state liquor laws was lax in her area, was arrested as the ringleader of a big-time moonshining operation...
...idea that management can be lax about costs without pricing its product not only out of foreign markets but out of the American market as well...
Those Who Only Breathe? "In terms of numbers and competition," Marson later admitted, "it is, of course, now harder to get into college. But this is a relative thing. Scholarship requirements are much more lax now than they were 20 years ago. In fact, admission criteria have nothing to do with scholarship. They are based on tests that do not test scholarship. In the state universities, it's even worse. All you have to do in most of them is to breathe to gain admission...