Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking Up the Slack. Last summer Ann went to the hospital for advice about special shoes. It was on that visit that Surgeon Griffiths startled her by asking whether she would like to grow smaller. "I was upset at first," she says. "I thought it was just another gibe. But then I found he really meant...
...sawing out almost four inches of the single bone (femur) in each thigh and about 3½ in. of the two bones (tibia and fibula) in the legs. The extra lengths of arteries and veins, muscles and tendons, had to be squeezed in and left to "take up the slack" by a gradual, concertina-like contraction...
Because of the inevitability of some slack-off in steel-and because a growing number of economists see signs that the nation's 50-month-long expansion has finished its most buoyant ascent-Ackley and his aides are quietly trying to balance the widespread business optimism with some hard-eyed realism. Said Ackley: "We will not be led into the mistake of assuming that continuing gains at the recent rate are assured for the second half of the year." In the months ahead, Ackley feels, the automobile and steel industries cannot be counted on to supply further great gains...
...slack pace is deceiving. From an original field of eight candidates for the job, the committee has selected four for more intensive interviewing, including a two-day visit to Cambridge for each. Only one of of the final candidates is a local man; the others come from St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...