Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledge business seemed a fussy sort of rigmarole. But it was a sign that Washington was flexing its slack muscles and bracing itself to launch a policy of determent (i.e., a warning of direct punishment, rather than a mere renewal of battle in Korea) as the best means of preventing a Korean truce from becoming a dangerous trap...
...trouble is that not enough defense orders have yet come through to take up the slack in the auto industry. Furthermore, much of the industry's defense work is done in plants outside Detroit. Walter Reuther argued that mobilizers should let the industry turn out 1,000,000 cars a quarter until fall. By then, he thought, there would be enough defense work so that drastic auto cuts could be made. Now, said Reuther, the auto industry is being unfairly treated in its low allotments of copper, steel and other scarce metals. Said he angrily, and somewhat fatuously...
Attendance at the UT goes up sharply just after reading period and examinations end, falls off before and during. Business is slack now at the UT as in many other American theatres...
Twelve to fifteen hours a week seems to be the perfect medium between letting a man slack off and allowing him to over-work. "Ten hours a week is a little light, 20 hours is too much," declares Taylor. Consequently this year the number of dining hall jobs for freshmen was doubled while the time each man worked was cut in half. "Before this year the freshmen were working 20 to 22 hours a week on these board jobs, and were having a lot of trouble with their studies," says Monro. "We halved the time each man would have...
Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel...