Word: slackenings
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...final moment, I had no doubt that they had won a lasting victory. The impossible had become true; a daydream was reality. It's so convincing, in fact, that the French Ministry of Education suppressed it for fifteen years, fearing that it would cause discipline in the schools to slacken. At a press conference, the film caused a riot...
...bluster. He urged that the U.S. halt its military buildup of marines, guerrilla fighters and helicopters in northern Thailand until the Soviets had time to reply to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer. Kennedy did not commit himself. But the fact was that the U.S. buildup in Thailand did slacken during the week...
Most of this country's trade with Poland at present is in surplus foodstuffs, which the Poles need desperately in their agricultural crisis. But in a year, the demand for surplus grain will slacken, and the U.S. won't be needed. Then what will Kennedy do with the $360 million in Polish currency he will have collected as payment? Many of the suggested American projects in Poland--building another hospital, rebuilding Warsaw Castle--would actually hinder the Polish drive for production in heavy industry and mass housing, by consuming both labor and materials, scarce items in Gomulka's Poland...
...much trouble," Rep. Meyer explained this weekend, in illustrating how the times were catching up with concepts which only recently were considered "ahead of the times." His opponent, Vermont's Governor Stafford, who had ceased criticizing Meyer's stand on atomic-testing, has now found it expedient to slacken his attack on the Congressman's position on China. Before large crowds who have grown increasingly curious over just what the fate of the world does hinge on, Meyer has explained, "Our real problem is living with the Chinese. If they were under United Nations surveillance, they could not commit such...
When Mullin began to slacken his pace shortly after the three-mile post, Fits-gerald moved up to keep Laris and Jennison under pressure. Mullin was back in business by the four-mile mark, and Fitzgerald eventually took fourth in 26:11. Howard, in his third cross country race, was fifth in 26:22, and Haldwin finished sixth, six seconds behind...