Word: slackenings
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...influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce. Cars lay idle along the coal and ore railroads-the Pennsy, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, the C. & O. Work would soon slacken in limestone quarries, zinc smelters, silica diggings. Barge traffic thinned as the tires were banked along the Monongahela, the Allegheny, the Ohio Rivers. Snow lay undisturbed on the great, vermilion open pits of the Mesabi Range...
...fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...
...underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...
...this sort of thing and at the same time more tasteful by means of pantomime than by word-of-mouth; and when an actor is attending to spoken lines, even good ones (and these are only pretty good), his ability to invent expressive pantomime is almost bound to slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused at hearing an anointed monarch bawl "Shut...
...planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers would next spring from the dunes and lunge forward behind grenades, machine guns and bayonets. This time it was the Japs who cried for reinforcements, and moaned that the tide of men rising from the sea never seemed to ebb or slacken...