Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the snare drums sizzled and the crowd gasped, two girls in tights stood on eight-foot pedestals a stage width apart, one with an end of a wire about her neck, the second holding the other end with her teeth. A man mounted the slack wire, stretched himself out flat-backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind...
...power project will be a concrete dam, 625 ft. long and 154 ft. thick, across the narrow estuary of the River Rance. Twice daily, as the 27-ft. tide rises, the sea will flow through the dam's water gates until slack tide. Then the gates will be shut. Three hours later, as the tide ebbs, the trapped water in the estuary will fight its way through 26 turbines (each...
...pretzel plant for Nabisco. Nobody who toured the ribboning express roads around Boston could conclude that New England is dying on the vine. Whole new industrial centers are springing up, with such companies as Raytheon, Polaroid and Sylvania building long, low modern factories to take up the slack in textile employment. And in Dearborn, Mich., Ford was celebrating one of the best sales years in its history by building a new, twelve-story administration building...
...candidate for most of Flippin's slack was dick Frye, until he threw his shoulder out against Cornell two weeks ago. But Martin, who suffered a separated shoulder on the previous Saturday at Brown, has received medical clearance for only part-time action...
...doesn't take a man with a micro scope or a Geiger counter to find the signs of economic slack in Illinois," said Douglas. "I have talked with auto workers...