Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among these is a decline in the number of students who apply to work at the Bureau. The number of applicants peaked early this decade and has begun to slack off, says Agoglia, who directs recruiting...
Barrett, on the other hand, is no worse for wear. After crisscrossing the < South to report on the Super Tuesday races in both parties, Barrett wrote this week's main story on the Republicans. His energy and longevity leave campaign newcomers slack-jawed. When recalling Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination drive for a young television interviewer last month, Barrett saw that the man was startled: "He looked at me as if I were a survivor of the Spanish-American...
...three-pointers (58 percent). If Orlandini is off, and he rarely is, there's forward Bob Scrabis (15.6 p.p.g), who has hit 40-of-85 three-pointers, and guard Tim Neff (9.1 p.p.g), who has hit half of his three's, 37-of-74, to pick up the slack...
Harvard spent the early part of the game adjusting its speed to the slippery conditions of the field. Both mud and taped ribs slowed Hotchkin's usually explosive style, but junior Ramy Rajballie picked up the slack from his position at right midfield...
...other buildings in New York, in other cities, in all the cities, new screams will take up the slack. Sometimes the authorities will respond, sometimes not. The beating of women and children will continue in the hidden boxes of apartments: evil, secret noise. You will hear the scream, and someone else will tell you that it wasn't a scream, it was a kettle whistle; and no one will be sure if there ever was a scream, until a body lies in evidence. How is the citizen-listener to react? Rush wildly through the corridors until the sound is unmistakable...