Word: slacken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downward, international trade could expand with a fixed or even a decreasing supply of dollars; the expansion would merely have to be coupled with international deflation. But there is no reason to believe that international deflation is any more likely today than it was in the thirties. Trade will slacken instead...
Soviet Helicopters. In the air, Typhoon Carla and the onset of the monsoons accomplished what innumerable SAMS, MIGS and antiaircraft guns could not: U.S. flyers were forced to slacken their pounding of North Viet Nam. On the only two clear days, Thunderchiefs hit rail lines and bridges on the Hanoi-to-China route, and shot down the 89th MIG of the war. Navy raiders from the Oriskany bombed Haiphong bridges and the military compound in the city's suburb where giant Soviet helicopters and SAMS are assembled...
Sheet, a line used to tighten or slacken the sails...
...they make clear that they are more and more ready to adopt the methods of Western capitalism, the development-minded countries of Communist Europe are actually following Yugoslavia's lead. Yugoslavia was first to slacken party control of industry, first to bow to the efficiencies of the profit system, first actively to seek competition in world markets. Now it is first in the Bloc again-this time with a hard-sell invitation to Western capital to set up shop in conjunction with state-owned Yugoslavian firms...
...Comsat, McCormack may, if any thing, slacken his pace. Although he was forced out of a promising Air Force career at 45 by heart trouble he has lately been working a 100-hour week at M.I.T. and as chairman of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. He also sits on six company boards, intends to relinquish all of these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board...