Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like China to be: reasonable, flexible, nonaggressive (see obituary, page 30). With the Premier's death, China lost half of the remarkable team that symbolized the People's Republic both to its own people and to those outside. Now only Mao remains, mentally alert at 82 but frail, slack-jawed and slurred of speech...
Brayton had an "exceptional year" last season, says his minor league pitching coach Bill Slack. With the ability to keep the ball down that experience brings, Slack says, Brayton "has a shot" at the majors. Bill Slack is a typical coach...
...been with the Sox for 25 years, and like most pitching coaches, lectured for fifteen minutes on the virtues of "keeping the ball down." That's everything: Slack keeps charts of hard-hit balls, whether they're caught or not, and when he shows them to pitchers it is proven that for every one low ball, five above-belt pitches get just that--belted. The pitchers tend to respond by saying, "I know." "If I had ten pitchers standing in front of me now, I'd tell all of them the same thing--keep the ball...
...increases continue apace, the rate of increase is starting to slack off. Last year's rise in fees was $580, and the current hike represents slightly higher rates of increase in tuition and board and a much lower one in room costs...
...feel ambivalent about change in the small ways, like a man standing up or holding the door," says Enid Slack, community affairs director of the United Bank of Denver. "There is now a fear syndrome in men. They are afraid women might be so liberated that they might be offended by such courtesies...