Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they will inherit. They ask, "Will our children be freaks?" And their doubts and fears can easily degenerate into a sense of defeat, a feeling that the battle of life has already been lost for them by their elders. When that happens, they tend to cut corners; they are lax while studying for exams, careless while driving cars. "Taking chances," says Dr. Escalona, "is what many a teen-age boy and girl would like to do in any case." They seize upon the uncertainties of life as a ready-made excuse for doing what they always wanted...
...after hour and day after day last week, planeloads, truckloads and trainloads of goods poured into Florida for shipment to Cuba. The stuff-much of it handled by U.S. Air Force men called into stevedore service-consisted mostly of baby foods, drugs, hospital and medical equipment, ranging from Ex-Lax to tons of tranquilizer pills (1,288 Miltowns...
...this does not mean that all of the other departments have been lax, nor does it necessarily suggest that the Gill plan recommendations are impractical. The current system of tutorial in Social Relations seems perfectly adapted to the subject matter of that field; Soc Rel has always relied heavily on the small group, not only as a method of class organization (in such courses as Soc Rel 120), but also as a teaching device (as in David Riesman's course, where the "lectures" often turn out to be panel discussions). Since many of the problems Soc Rel deals with...
...same time, both Nixon and Brown have tried to generate some genuine issues. Nixon has hammered hard at Brown with charges that his law enforcement is lax, that he is fiscally irresponsible, that the Democrats have failed to achieve industrial expansion sufficient to keep pace with the state's population growth, that Brown has refused to seek new laws to fight Communist subversion...
Most of the North African Jews, who follow the stricter Sephardic tradition, regard the Ashkenazim in France as doctrinally unorthodox and lax in their observance of religious duties. French Jews, in turn, privately dismiss the Sephardim as "backward and bigoted," fear the "superstitions" that the newcomers could impose upon Judaism in France...