Word: laxness
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...Cliffe can shake off the lax performances that hindered it in midseason, it could bring the national women's title back to Cambridge for another year...
...also summoned to Camp David. Though he had not been implicated in the Watergate scandal, many of his associates had been?so many that he had, properly, withdrawn from the investigation. Also, under his direction, the original Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the Watergate wiretappers had been lax and limited. No serious attempt had been made to find out who had ordered the wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily, but he was dismayed when Nixon insisted that...
...hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity. Their most articulate spokesman was Blaise Pascal, who, in his eloquently satirical Provincial Letters, accused the Jesuits of abetting the decay of Christianity by their lax moral and ascetic teachings. Their papal loyalty, furthermore, infuriated believers in the new nationalism. A magnanimous missionary project in New Spain?the "Paraguay Reductions"?grew into self-sufficient Indian strongholds under Jesuit protection, angering European colonists who spread calumnies against the order. Finally, the Pope bowed to the mounting...
...have a case. Dick Wilson was duly elected by the Sioux, as was the 20-member council, which he heads. But AIM has accused Wilson-a mixed blood who was previously a plumber-of nepotism, political patronage and corruption in his administration. Reported TIME'S Woodbury: "Accounting is lax, and the considerable amount of money that passes through tribal hands, often for loosely defined programs, makes corruption almost a way of life in Indian government...
...boost in the arm. While Howie Weiss did take two out of three, Bennett just couldn't get straightened out, dropping his first two bouts in inglorious fashion. The foil squad, which Marion had hoped would be the major strength of his squad, continued to look unimpressive, adding another lax performance to its collection...