Word: slack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...
...seats at the Battle of Britain. At Dover was the greatest concentration. Newsmen in tin hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare Cliff, high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin...
...Secretary of State went through the unavoidable, formal round of public posturings. But he did his real work in the corridors and rooms of Havana's swelegant Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Astonished was many a high-hat diplomat when a grey, modest, smiling-eyed gentleman in a slack lounge suit wandered in, took off his coat, sprawled in a chair, talked as though Secretaries of State and Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve...
Happiest note of the week came from Detroit-automobile sales had broken through "normal seasonal slack" to total 405,000 units for June, up 33% from hopeful 1939. One good reason for this month-end spurt (which made up for early-June slowness) was public suspicion that the 1941 new models might be the last for some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting...