Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss of the U.S. Office of Education had barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. "Soft," "flabby," "lax," "easy," exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M. McMurrin, 47. "We have much less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...
...operator of the club "did not keep proper files and was lax in replying to complaints," the Post Office said, but the complaints were few in comparison to the number of orders shipped. The club has since adjusted these few complaints...
...fully agree with the kids that our lax school system should be stiffened. While in a San Diego high school, I got to select my own courses-all art. Now, five years later, I'm called a beatnik-what I really am is a "stupnik" and am straining in night school to catch up on fundamentals...
...general, complained Literature and Life not long ago, irreligion is lax, while religion is zealous. Not only did the Communists fail with a program of building youth clubs, so that churches now outnumber clubhouses in some areas, but the churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold...
...more than 2,300 prisoners at a time, today there are 5,268, with 13,000 more on parole or given suspended sentences because prison space is at a premium, even with considerable doubling up. Even so, the board stoutly insists that this is not the fault of lax punishment but the inevitable result of wartime relaxation of morality, slacker liquor laws, etc. Sweden's reported crime rate of 0.297% is still among the world's lowest (comparable U.S. rate...