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...sophomores--Floyd Molloy and Lanny Keyes--will start in the much depleted backfield. Although both are large lack of experience will probably force Crimson halfbacks to take up the defensive slack...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Faces Tufts Today in First Contest of Season | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...loose nouns for a dynamic verb. A PR man never "finishes" or "completes" a project; he finalizes it. By the same token, subsidiaries are activized, problems are empathized, and slack departments energized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slanguage in the Gray Flannel Century | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...production, Chance Vought is counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Austerity, but No Alarm | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Myrna Ann Tubby, 3, a Choctaw papoose from the reservation at Philadelphia, Miss., was as slack as a rag doll when she was admitted to the Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson. She was completely paralyzed, she did not cry and probably could not have done so even if in pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tick Time | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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