Word: slacked
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This week has been a slack one for potatoes. The Central Kitchen, which serves all the Houses but Adams and Dunster, usually manages to send close to 10,000 pounds of them per week along the catacombs to its five dinning halls. This week the Kitchen used only 75 bags of poatoes, each weighing 100 pounds...
Horseplay with the corpse, and similar macabracadabra, has been a viable variety of humor in the human village since at least the Middle Ages, and few will seriously bother to accuse Hitchcock of bad taste. What he does sometimes invite in this picture is the charge of slack method. The comic pace often gets so slow that the moviegoer realizes he is, after all, at a funeral. The actors, too, sometimes behave pretty much like pallbearers, but the central idea is of such wormy charm that it takes more than an hour and a half to spoil...
...have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...
Partly because of the transition period from Johnson to Clements in the Senate, but mostly because only a few major items remain on the congressional schedule for this session, the week was a slack one on Capitol Hill. Items...
...Department's employees, paid on an hourly basis, never face the possibility of being laid off in a slack period--one never occurs. Because of this constant work, the University rarely calls on outside help, except in such unusual cases as the Memorial Church painting, when special skills are required...