Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crusaders were unable to penetrate the tenacious Crimson defense. Junior guard Kenny Wolfe, completely handcuffed Gaskins, playing him tighter than Bubba Smith in stretch pants. None of the rest of the Crusaders could pick up the slack and they looked like a traveling circus with the humerous broken plays and bad passes they were pulling...
...they can spit it into plastic bags and sell it as "mouthwash methadone." Some unethical doctors are selling the drug to nonaddicts or prescribing unneeded amounts to real heroin users; many addicts are getting extra supplies by enrolling at more than one treatment center. In clinics where vigilance is slack or rehabilitation services inadequate, take-home privileges may be too quickly granted and too often abused: given enough methadone to tide them over a weekend or longer, addicts may reduce their need by tapering and sell the rest...
...Harvard's players and the usual drivel that I and others cough up about Harvard being such a diverse, distracting place. The depth provided by Harvard's wealth of good sophomores will test that explanation this year, because for once Harvard has the depth to pick up the slack if some of the super-stars get tired at mid-season, which is when Harvard usually starts losing to teams like Penn and Dartmouth...
Bill Bihrle, Fred Lang and Tom Kline will try to take up the slack left by the graduation of high jumper Ed Baskauskas, while shotputters Naughton and Jay Hughes should have few problems with any squads the Crimson will face...
...controllers at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center shut the cameras down until they could locate the problem and send new instructions to the satellite's computer. Meanwhile, the other system, a multispectral scanner built by Hughes Aircraft Co., was fully able to take up the observational slack...