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...Slack your rope, Hangsaman...
...radiation laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. Another ring operated around Chicago with Scientist Clarence Hiskey (also under indictment for contempt) as a chief contact. In New York, Yakovlev directed the activities of Courier Harry Gold, in his pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample of a new explosive called RDX. The Rosenbergs apparently fed Yakovlev the data collected from Morton Sobell, who worked in radar and electronics, while Rosenberg himself stole the proximity fuse by the simple expedient of putting one in his briefcase...
Some frightened businessmen were already murmuring that a recession was just around the corner. But there seemed no chance of that, since the defense program is bound to take up any slack. Nevertheless, many a businessman was suddenly reminded again that prices can go down as well...
...week of careful, two-mile-a-day advances, Eighth Army took most of the slack out of the Communist defense line. Thrown off balance, the Chinese Reds were having difficulty preparing the counteroffensive Eighth Army had predicted...
...local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...