Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year's leading pass catcher, halfback John Tagliaferri, will have to pick up the ground-gaining slack created by Baker's absence...
Last year's leading pass catcher, halfback John Tagliaferri, will have to pick up the ground-gaining slack created by Baker's absence...
While Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence decides how to replace the outgoing dean of admissions and financial aids, Jewett's top two former assistants will work double duty to pick up the slack that has been left in the wake of Jewett's promotion to the College's top post Jewett assumed office yesterday...
...problem of evil has long been the province of philosophy. Philosophy is not particularly interested in that question anymore. (Nor is the world much interested in philosophy, but that is another matter.) Journalism has taken up the slack. Unfortunately, journalism is not terribly well equipped to handle it, principally because journalism is a medium of display and demonstration. When evil is the subject, the urge to display leads to dark places indeed...
...disgraced when they do not excel at their studies. Le Giau expressed pride but Daughter Jennifer was ashamed when she came in second in a spelling contest. Son Nguyen, who plans to study engineering and then become a doctor, is still concerned that he has been infected by slack U.S. student habits. Reason: instead of straight A's, he pulled a few B's in his senior year in high school...