Word: slacking
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...lead your team and how many wins you can earn. Throwing only sixty pitches limits me to four innings and thus does not allow me to qualify for a win (the winning starting pitcher needs a minimum of five innings) and leaves others having to pick up the slack. I understand that the decision-makers within the organization are trying to keep my arm healthy since the professional season is nearly three times longer than what I was accustomed to in college. But it can be frustrating, because I am used to competing for seven or eight innings as opposed...
...space than ever before. If McLoughlin and University Hall won’t scrap their plan to handpick the organizations in Yard basements, the least they can do is keep open enough office space to fulfill the needs of those organizations that Hilles can’t serve adequately.Alex Slack ’06, a former Crimson editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...facility and watch what happens when an Opus Dei member passes through a chapel. He stops and genuflects in the direction of the tabernacle (which is believed to carry the blessed sacrament) before going on his way. Prayers are frequently conducted in Latin. There seems to be very little slack in days that are filled with meditation, prayer, confession and work. Opus Dei members speak assuredly and with clarity about their lives and their calling, and many have the slightly distant gaze of true believers. It was clear when we arrived, however, that every member had been made aware...
...this point, most senior thesis writers have finally submitted their souls in 100 pages and twelve-point font and are ready to slack off and enjoy senior spring. But Ezra J. Rapoport ’06 isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The engineering sciences concentrator just finished his senior thesis project: wireless glasses that let the user chat on his cell through the earpiece. And the Mather resident isn’t stopping there. Rapoport intends on improving his invention by adding a video projector to the glasses to view Internet searches and text messages...
Indeed, local papers often had what black Courier distributor Arlam Carr called a “Negro page” which reported on local or social news in the black community but never reported stories related to the civil rights movement. So the Courier picked up the slack...