Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright side, Noel Scidmore and Buck Logan are healthy and have been running well most of the season. McNulty, who turned in his best race of the year last week at the Heps, and Peter Johnson, with freshmen Eric Schuler and Bruce Weber, could take up the slack...
...SoHo defense, which has yet to yield any points this year, picked up whatever slack the offense left as it completely shut off any Eliot threat...
...standard of living, however, can crumble in different ways. Volcker's chosen poison is to take up inflation's slack by letting prices and business production outstrip the consumer's buying power. As Andrew Tobias has pointed out, though, the U.S. pays $65 billion annually to foreign oil producers, and that by far should be the chief target of any anti-inflationary program. Let the "living standard" that has Americans riding mammoth cars and wasting electricity fall, not the standard that keeps food on their tables and money in their savings accounts...
These amusements are complicated by the fact that the native tongue of the players is not English but Doggese, a kind of revisionist lingo in which words have arbitrarily assigned meanings. When someone says "Sun-dock-trog-pan-slack," he is counting from one to five...
BARC certainly whizzes through its first tongue-teasing test, but dock, trog, pan and slack are still to come. As for Stoppard, this time it is hard to say whether he preys on words or words prey...