Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset of the second half, as Kathy Fulton grabbed the tap and drove in a quick two, to re-establish the first half flow. Radcliffe built the lead up to 26 points before play began to get sloppy and the cagers' tenacious woman to woman defense began to slack...
...fraud law; the druggists were charged with paying more than $7,000 in kickbacks and bribes to the nursing homes in exchange for exclusive contracts to supply drugs to Medicaid patients. A Cook County grand jury is investigating a dozen major pharmacies for padding prescription bills. Under fire for slack administration of Medicaid, the Illinois Public Aid Department has recently suspended four labs and five doctors from the program. A team of department investigators and auditors have turned up $3.4 million in Medicaid overpayments and recovered...
...slapstick tragedy is not the only reason why people are watching Mary Hartman. The show's fascination lies in its oddly shifting tone. Almost all of the characters are confused. Mary herself is usually slack-jawed with bafflement-about her sister, who has fallen in with the local massage-parlor king; her grandfather, "the Fernwood Flasher"; and most of all by her stolid and truly enigmatic husband Tom. Though he is having an affair with Mae, a comely co-worker at the plant, he is impotent with Mary. The situation makes him terse and glum...
...nothing else, Pasqualini's captors insist on form. The inmates are kept near starvation and Pasqualini is horrified by the sight of his body in a mirror: His skin sags slack and bruised from contact with the communal plank bed. Nonetheless, when someone filches food, it cannot be from hunger, and he is "struggled." After three days of hooting, Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds...
...half closed at 41-29, as Cornell gave the hoopsters little scoring slack to work with...