Word: slacking
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...last week the President began to take up some of the slack. In three separate instances he moved with both sureness and speed, and while he inflicted a few bruises in the process, he also managed to leave the impression that he has begun to get the hang of foreign policy...
...Youah name Weavuh, dat raht?" Without thinking, I replied, "That's right." He leaped across the table and beat me out of the room and halfway down the hall. I finally went limp and fell to the floor, hoping that he would think that I was seriously hurt and slack off--he began kicking me in the ribs and I hurriedly considered the practicality of nonviolence in this situation. He grabbed me by my shirtfront--ripping it and straining himself--and dragged me back into the interrogation room (there I noticed that the police escort had drawn guns...
Williams held Harvard's high-scoring front line of Bob Inman, Barry Williams, and Merie McClung to 35 points, but two sharp-shooting guards took up the slack. Sophomore sensation Keith Sedlacek pumped in 14 points with his patented long jumper, and Leo Scully contributed...
...vicuna dressing gown. But Abercrombie never lost much sleep on the girls-if they insisted on coming along. Judging from what they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part of Margaret Macomber's hostility to her luckless husband must have been her feeling that she looked awful...
...Fred Borch will still have some problems. Two large and significant departments-atomic power and the new line of lower-priced digital computers -are both still in the red. And with world competition rising fast, the world's largest electrical equipment maker has some overcapacity. Taking up that slack will be the job of the marketing experts, who under the Cordiner revision won commanding power at G.E. The company's $300 million annual expenditure on research is the largest of any U.S. corporation, but it is G.E.'s marketing men rather than its researchers who have...