Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head. Bobby is credited by Annotator Kmoch with "the Game of the Century"- one that chess buffs retrace in slack-jawed admiration. It marked the boy's upset victory over Donald Byrne in last year's Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament. After a safe and careful opening that left him in a cramped position with no particular advantage, Bobby broke up the game with an ingenious exhibition of combination play...
...sprawling ugliness of a three-story Willard Hotel that seems to imprison the audience as well as the players, this pallid version of Broadway's Look Homeward, Angel has just enough story line for a wistful, low-key one-act play. The line goes hopelessly slack in the second and third acts when Playwright Sergel keeps falling back on his first. Even the major Anderson characters seem thin, and for a good reason. Anderson merely sketched them with evocative daubs; his adapter failed to fill them out with the detail demanded by the theater. Out of misapplied reverence...
...arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped dump Fernández were pressing the dictator to slack off the oppression. Clearly, Pérez Jiménez' troubles were far from over...
...flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...
...spending also means that inflation, which dogged the U.S. throughout 1957, will still be present in 1958. The defense speedup may well take up all the deflationary slack in the U.S. economy, and push on from there. While missiles do not require the mountainous raw materials of tanks and planes, they need more and higher-paid skills, on an ever-spreading base. In turn, this means more money in the pockets of consumers for more autos, more appliances, more luxuries of all kinds...