Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally raucous House chamber fellsilent, Flaherty told fellow lawmakers that thestate must now pick up the slack for a negligentfederal government and local communitiesconstrained by Proposition 2 1/2, the 1980property tax cap referendum...
...Catamounts will be counting on Captain Ian Boyce and senior Kyle McDonough, who finished the season fourth on the ECAC scoring list with 22 goals and 17 assists (39 points), to pick up the slack. Sophomore Mike Millham (3.27 gaa), who played a key role in Saturday's victory, will be in goal...
Robert Towne's plot recalls the old James Cagney melodramas in which righteous Pat O'Brien fought for his soul and rotten Humphrey Bogart tried to perforate his body. But the moral is utterly today: it's about going straight without paying the price. As handsome and slack muscled as a surfer past his prime, the movie renounces ambiguity for confusion. In the end, like an old set of tires or a frayed friendship, Tequila Sunrise just wears...
School's out, and the first grade exits for the day in double file, with six- year-old Tina somewhere in the middle. Slack-armed, she drifts sideways toward her foster mother across the rushing current of her classmates. Her eyes are scrunched up woefully in the universal expression of a sick child seeking consolation from a parent. Her ear aches, she reports. Also, her feet hurt...
...ahead, 4-1, and there's a tendency to slack off," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "You've got to be ready mentally in the game. We have to tighten...