Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds explained that the system would not be designed to replace the maids now working for the University. Each year a certain proportion of the maids fail to return and the porter arrangement would "take up the slack" without displacing those maids who did return...
...flailing eagerness to please, Charles inadvertently struck low blows in the fifth and eighth rounds, and the crowd booed him. Even the fouls didn't seem to stagger Oma much. In the tenth round, nonetheless, before the crowd realized that Oma had actually been hurt, Oma came apart. Slack-jawed and befuddled from a final series of lefts & rights to the head, he staggered vacantly around the ring as the referee stopped the fight...
...machines have been operating all over the U.S. They were all made by Chicago's Mills Industries Inc., O. D. Jennings & Co., and eight smaller Chicago companies, who also turned out jukeboxes and other coin machines. With slot-machine production stopped, the companies hoped to take up the slack with war contracts and legal vending machines. But none of them expect all the slot machines to disappear from clubs and roadhouses overnight. They last a long time, and some clubs, anticipating the law, bought enough to last ten years...
...factory buildings and facilities need modernizing and expanding. We need to stimulate the growth of new firms by opening up new sources of capital. We need new industries to take up the slack brought about by a decline in some of our important industries. There is the problem of New England paying into the federal treasury more than it gets back...
...ever coached) was the only 1949 regular returning on that platoon. But the coach has managed to locate some hefty replacements for the other six positions, and it is safe to say that where Army's offensive line weakens (so to speak), those Cadet backs can take up the slack...