Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
After the half-time intermission, the Crimson was guilty briefly of letting the offensive pressure slack off. "But when Cornell started to take advantage of it, we came back," Dupuis said yesterday...
...there are now signs of a revival. As farms become larger and more efficient, agricultural experts expect the South's contribution toward meeting U.S. food demand to grow faster than the rest of the nation's. Cotton has declined in importance as a cash crop, but the slack has been taken up by other products: citrus fruit in Florida, sugar cane and rice in Louisiana. Southern soybean harvests are expected to account for 30% of the U.S. production in 1985, up from 27% in 1970. By 1985, Southern livestock farms will be producing nearly a third...
Late summer is slack time, and theaters have to scrounge for new movies. That may be part of it. But a quick survey of three recent films from abroad also suggests that the revolutions in the European cinema of the early '60s have subsided, the changes they brought have become standardized, and film makers on the Continent have forsaken enterprise for convention...
...student $20,000 in compensatory damages. "A very bad precedent," Catholic University Counsel Denver Graham calls it. "A university cannot be the insurer of everyone who comes onto the campus." The precedent, however, rests on well-established principles applied more and more across the U.S. Juries are penalizing slack security against rape attacks and are likely to make those they find negligent pay large damages...