Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment of possibly as much as $75 million, on the belief that the U.S public will switch to color television. To 500 station owners and executives affiliated with NBC and thus involved-not all of them happily-in its color plunge, Sarnoff insisted that black-and-white TV is slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking...
...centimeters taller than their elders), tempestuous and troubled. Like the pale young Parisians maundering in existentialism when the tide of war ebbed from the Left Bank, like the Teddy Boys of postwar London posturing on street corners in their shabby pseudo-Edwardian finery like pathetic barnyard roosters, like the slack-jawed worshipers of Elvis Presley and their spiritual ancestors in the U.S., the hootch-swilling hellions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s, the truants of Japan have no place to run but away. Soon after the war, their restlessness was marked by a sharp spurt in juvenile delinquency. Today...
Alongside the practical physics belongs Parry's fierce concentration. He spends as much time just thinking about his shot as fondling it in the putting circle. Parry spent many of his nights alone in his ascetic bedroom, the lights dim. his weighty frame slack on the bed. From his tape recorder trickled the soothing sound of his own voice: "Keep low, keep back, keep your movement fast across the circle. Fast, now! Fast! Fast! And beat them! Beat them all!" Parry is convinced that this nocturnal rite adds inches to his tosses...
...loathe them, the people closest to Gerald are farthest from him. His Danish wife is an octupal mom rich in bloodcurdling whimsy who speaks Teutonically fractured English. Their best years together have been the long ones they have spent apart. Gerald's only daughter has married a slack-spirited intellectual snob. His younger son is a BBC television personality whose public pitch is heart-tugging interviews with the wronged; privately, he is enamored of a blackmailing, homosexual spiv. Gerald's elder son is a humorless business tycoon who keeps two sets of emotional books: in one, a grim...
...been left unlocked. On entering the room, he noticed that his bureau drawers had been opened and that two new shirts and a new sweater had been removed. His roommates checked and reported that they were missing a topcoat, three sweaters, a sports coat, a pair of slack, and possibly some shirts...