Word: slacking
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Have to Take up Slack...
Coach Bill McCurdy will be looking for the fourth consecutive win for his varsity, but he stated, "It all depends on what our second and third string runners can do. They've got to take up the slack for our injured...
...Fifth Season (by Sylvia Regan) has to do with Manhattan's garment industry. So does the title: on Seventh Avenue there are five seasons-spring, summer, fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way. Heading the cast and gamely shouldering the burden are Yiddish Theater Comedian Menasha Skulnik and Broadway Veteran Richard Whorf. Skulnik, a mournful-looking, richly accented, frequently funny comic, handles the humor; Whorf, the drama. A married man who guiltily sins with a model, Whorf makes this part of his role...
PRODUCTION & PROSPERITY. The flow of arms for defense and goods for civilians is the mainstream of U.S. strength; it has to be maintained and strengthened. Specifically, Ike has to keep the economy steady when arms orders slack off in a year...
...year began in a strange air of frustration. Everybody knew that arms production could not be achieved without dislocations of men and machines. But the dislocations and restrictions on materials for civilian use came before arms orders were ready to take up the slack. As a result, in Detroit alone, 125,000 people, 14% of the work force, were unemployed...