Word: slackens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
These zealous men, to whose activities the Bulletin devotes nearly all its pages, are challenging undergraduates to do something. The mere search for "Veritas" is no longer enough. They have a nobler mission for this University to fulfill. But America must not let its universities slacken in their ancient duty of free thought and discussion. They have had a lot to do with building the American way of life, not just as symbols or figureheads, but through real, practical leadership. Of all times, this is the most dangerous to try to regiment them...