Word: slacked
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...slack pace is deceiving. From an original field of eight candidates for the job, the committee has selected four for more intensive interviewing, including a two-day visit to Cambridge for each. Only one of of the final candidates is a local man; the others come from St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and New York...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...
Stretched Blood. The blockade is hurting. The snail-pace behavior of the customs guards has crippled tourism. Gibraltar has tried to take up the slack with public-works projects and by passing laws to permit tax havens for small industry as well as Panama-style flags-of-convenience for shipowners...
Nasser claimed that this would hurt German trade more than Egypt and looked for aid elsewhere. A French technical mission is currently touring the country scouting possible projects; Poland has already offered to take up some of the slack; and Ulbricht himself has committed $83 million in East German money...
...funny in a way, particularly since the white Mississippian will nod his head zealously through about two-thirds of the spiel, until he gets the point. Slack-jawed indignation ensues. I am afraid, though, that you have ruined my sardonic joke. I got half way through your cover story before nausea overtook me, and it occurred to me that blind barbarism-in the Congo, in Mississippi-is the one citadel that will not tumble before mockery...