Search Details

Word: slacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...nothing else, Pasqualini's captors insist on form. The inmates are kept near starvation and Pasqualini is horrified by the sight of his body in a mirror: His skin sags slack and bruised from contact with the communal plank bed. Nonetheless, when someone filches food, it cannot be from hunger, and he is "struggled." After three days of hooting, Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Reform Through Labor | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...half closed at 41-29, as Cornell gave the hoopsters little scoring slack to work with...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Suffer Another Ivy Disaster... | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

...budget jeopardizes the vitality and duration of the recovery," says Arthur Okun, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller adds: "To hit the brakes when unemployment and economic slack are still legion and inflation is ebbing would be fiscally irresponsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK: The Political Economy of '76 | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...INSTEAD of recognizing international friendship, ABC pushes Cold War nationalism. To take up slack in boring moments, ABC tenders morbidity. In the place of penetrating commentary, ABC offers sexist inanity. If it weren't for the beautiful Austrian mountains, the Olympics wouldn't be worth watching...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: ABC's Fall From Olympus | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...starter who's a leftie, and two or three relievers. Three pitchers (Craig Skoke, Steve Baar, Roger Moret) have vacated with only one left-handed acquisition (Tom House), but the minor league pitching "is the best we've ever had, all the way down through the organization," according to Slack and his 25 years. His future might be with another team, particularly if he has a good year, in which case he'll be drafted unless the new lefties above Brayton in the hierarchy fold up. Slack just hopes Brayton in the hierarchy fold up. Slack just hopes Brayton doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Book On Brayton | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | Next