Word: slacken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when it averaged over 18?; in 1932 it dropped to 5?. Last year, with war abroad and U. S. industry in better shape, the price rose as high as 17?. Under this lure, production in the U. S. and abroad rose to high levels. Then demand began to slacken; prices fell; production was curtailed...
...fact that it was 10.30 and quite dark did not slacken the speed of the canine streaks of lightning. They went by smell, and when they came to the deceitful tracks of some pedestrian they often went off the track. But it was not long before shouts from Freshmen, cunningly stationed at strategic positions about the Yard, put them back...
...ruck. He watched Mary Reynolds slip into the lead, watched horse after horse try to catch her, break irritably into a gallop and be taken to the outside to calm down. Last to try it was tough little Brown Berry. Mary Reynolds watched him come, and slacken. Then she pulled her sulky wheels in front of his nose, slammed home in 2:03¾, three lengths ahead of Brown Berry...
Report that caused businessmen to nod sagely was the backlog of unfilled orders of U. S. Steel Corp. Optimists have argued that under the New Deal steel business would continue its steady upswing without the usual midsummer tendency to slacken. Estimates of capacity of steel operations have for three weeks been hinting that steel would ease oft. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders confirmed the fact: at 2,020,000 tons they were off 86,000 tons from the month before, a normal seasonal decline...
Declaring that Russia must not slacken but must even speed up the tempo of her Five-Year Plan, Stalin concluded almost fiercely...