Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must, do much better," said Butler. But the time had come, he went on, when "doing better" could be accomplished not through more government controls and interventions, but through more incentives for production, savings and investment. "We must get out of the slack water, lighten the ship and give her way," the Chancellor said...
Married. Glenn Davis, 28, All-America halfback ("Mr. Outside") of West Point's undefeated 1944-46 teams, now a Houston oil executive; and Mrs. Ellen Slack, 31, pretty World War II widow; in Shreveport, La., the day after Davis received word of his final divorce decree from up & coming Cinemactress Terry (Come Back, Little Sheba) Moore...
...final, nuzzling gently into a herd of 40 calves under the slack-reined guidance of her regular rider and trainer, Buster Welch, Marion's Girl singled out the liveliest calf of the show. Within 20 seconds she had nudged the calf clear of the herd. In ranch work, this would be all that Marion's Girl would have to do; the calf would be roped and led away. In exhibition work, a pair of "turnback" riders, yelling and waving hats, try to drive the calf back into the herd again. This time, charging back from the whooping...
Only a court order can break up the Yankees and stop them from setting a new record of five straight pennants. Allie Reynolds and Phil Rizzuto seem to improve with age, and Whitey Ford is back to take up the slack...
Personnel departments place most of the blame on the draft for the recent slack in interested college graduates. Those not being drafted want to go on to graduate schools to avoid having to serve and to complete as much education as possible...