Word: sags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British intelligence hack Leamas, Burton looks puffy, paunchy, burnt out. His shoulders sag, he interrupts himself with breathy exhalations, and his eyes are dead because he is bored with killing but beyond caring. "It's like metal fatigue," says Control (Cyril Cusack), recalling Leamas from West Berlin to London for an extraordinary mission: to frame Mundt, the Communist intelligence chief whose assassins have been eradicating Britain's East German informants. Leamas must act as a decoy, shamming to convince the East Germans that he is embittered and ripe to defect. While the gears of intrigue mesh, Burton...
...Sag or Buckle. Bonding has also opened new vistas for hard-to-manage materials. Mohair jackets and coats, infamous for bagging and stretching, can now be stabilized with a simple backing of cotton sheeting or tricot. Loose-weave hopsack and tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching...
Spiritual Sag...
...Signs of Sag. The underlying irony in the current cutback campaign is that only last June the President's experts saw serious signs of sag in the economy, persuaded him to engineer a $3.4 billion excise tax cut and to hint at another slash in income taxes aimed at stimulating business activity next year. Now, by contrast, some officials are beginning to talk guardedly of a tax increase in 1966 if Viet Nam gets much more expensive. Thus far, the talk is muted, for no Administration likes to contemplate tax boosts in an election year...
...which is fairly eyebrow-lifting language for an "objective" social scientist. And if his language lifts brows among some of those concerned with scientific objectivity, his background makes their jaws sag. For Clark is, of course, a Negro and his specialty, yea life work, has been an examination of the effects of prejudice and segregation in America--or as Ebony calls it, the white problem. The great question looms, then: How can a Negro approach with any degree of objectivity a problem that has personally affected him so elementally and profoundly from the earliest memories of his existence...