Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private organizations have taken up some of the slack. From corporations have gone errant economists whose advice has won the respect of South American officials. The American Federation of Labor is helping Latin workers to organize. Most effective, perhaps, has been the Rockefeller Foundation. Converting the continent into a laboratory for disease cure and economic development projects, the Foundation has done much to counteract anti-American propaganda. But private programs have neither the authority nor the effect of an active State Department...
...unregenerate's awful doom, he covers his eyes with both hands; and when he warns that "it can happen to you," his forefinger slashes at every sinner's heart. To keep himself mobile, Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each...
...strike fiasco of 1934 ended the life of the YCL. But other groups took up the slack. The Harvard Socialist League, part of the Greater Boston Student Committee for Peace and Freedom, organized a large anti-war demonstration on Boston Common on Armistice day, 1935. The League was also successful in banishing arch-conservative William Randolph Hearst's battle-filled Metrotone Movie News from the University Theatre...
...twice and gaining a total of 251 yards, more than two-thirds of the Crimson total, and 37 more than the entire Davidson offense. A 6.3-yard average for 22 attempts on the ground, six pass completions in 17 tries, and a 43-yard punting average, offset the defensive slack...
...decided that there was a need to expand the Freshman Orientation week, which the Key is currently sponsoring. But they voted down my idea of replacing the Freshman Smoker and having this instead. Perhaps in place of the Smoker, the Freshman Jubilee could be moved up into the slack period in February and thus stop the competition for the few good weekends in the spring. William Magie...