Word: lax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that speech I referred to the case of Harry Dexter White and the manner in which it was treated by the prior Administration to illustrate how successful espionage agents had been in penetrating our Government at that time and how lax our Government was at that time in meeting such a grave problem...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...
...corruption headed the list of Cambridge election issues and when patronage overshadowed honest qualification as basis for a municipal appointment, the city and the Cambridge Civic Association face another election. To some extent the issue is relatively clear cut, the loss of a CCA majority will bring back a lax government, dominated by self interest and designed to enrich a politically victorious few. But even the CCA has proposed some poor candidates, and voters should not blindly check its entire list of candidates...
...March 16 picture of Queen Elizabeth II removing her own wrap was disgusting . . . You called it "a moment of royal informality"; I call it plain old bad manners. Let's hope the American male doesn't take stock in this incident. They are already prone to be lax . . . As for the Duke of Edinburgh, I'm sure he must know better. SALLY HAWKINS Los Angeles...
...this leaves a required language-culture program fairly well mangled, as indeed it should be. There is a line to tread between a requirement so lax that it is useless and one so tough it gobbles up a disproportionate share of the students' time. What is needed is an elementary course sufficiently well-taught to arouse or sustain interest in its subject, and though enough to give the ignorant something on which they can build further if they should wish to build...