Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, a 44-year-old chemical technician named Alfred Dean Slack, was arrested ashe left his automobile in a parking lot to report for work at the Sundure Paint Corp. in Syracuse, N.Y. His friends were as astounded as the friends of Harry Gold had been only two weeks before. Slack, a big, rugged-looking man, had been known as a solid citizen, who worked hard to support his wife and two children, a provider who had licked the housing shortage by building his family a suburban cottage with his own hands...
...Formula. In a statement issued after his arrest, however, FBI Chieftain J. Edgar Hoover charged that Slack, a World War II supervisor at the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn., had given Harry Gold samples of a secret,' high-powered explosive called RDX-and data on its manufacture. At the same time, the FBI made public the names of two Russian officials accused of directing Harry Gold in his espionage activities. Unfortunately, the FBI added, the two Russians had already left...
...Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk in public an endless slack wire over incredible abysses. It's a quivering wire, which seems to be constantly and maliciously shaken, but you will have to walk it right through to the day (which won't be very cheerful when it comes) when you are retired Emeritus. All your lives, you will...
...Northwest's wheat and cattle lands had reached their peak of production; the Wenatchee and Yakima fruit orchards (apples, pears and peaches) had apparently surfeited their market. An early Northwest dream-vast trade with the Orient-had blinked out. In 1950 the slack was being taken up with public money: Boeing's big airplane contracts, the Bremerton Navy Yard, hydroelectric projects and the Hanford plant made the U.S. Government the region's biggest employer...
Turk Broder and Ron Huebsch are definitely out, and Whitney will have to shuffle his midfield lines to take up the slack. Hank Wood will hold down his customary position on the first midfield. He will be joined by Pete Franklin, dropped back from the attack, and Skip Johnson, promoted from the third line...