Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special interest will center on the performance of Norm Bruck in the dash. Bruck, who has improved greatly since the beginning of the year, is being counted on to take up slack in the outdoor dash events...
Last week, as autos cut back (see below), housing was showing signs of picking up (TIME, Feb. 6). There were some other segments of the economy that were expanding, moving to offset the slack...
...back door of Stuart's family's house-and things could be awkward in church, because he has a front pew." But Outerbridge wants to stick it out, even though "lots of people would like to break me. However, if I get through the slack season, I'll be all right. I think we've found happiness; Royce is a wonderful person...
...wouldn't want consumer credit to rise again so fast as it did this past year," Slichter said, "but there's very little chance it will, anyway. We took up a lot of slack last year in the purchase of cars and other goods, and we were lucky that this coincided with a greatly increased production. We are practically at production peak now--it may increase this year, but not by much...
This week has been a slack one for potatoes. The Central Kitchen, which serves all the Houses but Adams and Dunster, usually manages to send close to 10,000 pounds of them per week along the catacombs to its five dinning halls. This week the Kitchen used only 75 bags of poatoes, each weighing 100 pounds...