Word: slack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout Germany the grey-green legions that once ruled Europe were now slack and disorganized in defeat-a soft, mushy mass of an army with only a few muscles of resistance. Cut in two by a U.S.-Russian meeting (see below), the Wehrmacht was all but cut into thirds and sixths. Bremen and Munich fell. The threat of a formidable national redoubt in the Alps was fast fading, and with it, the last German hope of delay...
Blond, pudgy, slack-mouthed, sullen and mean-eyed, the sniper ranted about the disgrace of capture, said he would rather have died for his Führer. An American lieutenant, one of whose men had been killed by these snipers, handed him a .45 automatic with one cartridge in the chamber. The German looked at the G.I.s who had him covered with rifles. Then he put the pistol's heavy muzzle to the soft spot under his right ear and pulled the trigger. One of the G.I.s said: "First he surrenders and then he shoots himself...
...Still Another? For many years after the war, Bob Ingalls devoutly believes, his yard will be busy. The diesel-electric locomotive orders should take up the slack between ship contracts. Last week shipping circles buzzed with a rumor of still another project. The rumor: after the war Ingalls will build a fleet of fast ships, operate them under his own house-flag carrying fruits and vegetables from West Coast ports to Europe...
That was too much for slack-chinned John Rankin, Mississippi's loudest demagogue. He hopped up and shouted...
Some soldiers crossed on foot bridges. The night before, engineer patrols had sneaked steel cables across the river, and these had remained slack, submerged and undetected during the day. Now they were pulled taut, out of the water, and swaying foot bridges were strung across in a matter of minutes...