Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. ("Sock") McMorris, Kimmel's war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia and to bring in his own team. They trudged to the new CinCPac's conference...
...long armistice between the wars, Nimitz had the usual assortment of duty. Always his chief contribution was a sense of balance, of pulling the team together. If things were slack, he tightened them. If he took over a taut ship, he loosened it up a little. He got along well with civilians, because he did not brass-hat them...
Mitchell Lodzinski, 22, had a dazed, slack-mouthed look. He was listless, dull-eyed, wasted down to 123 lbs. from a normal 160. But somewhere deep in him Detroit detectives sensed a gathering scream. He made them jumpy...
...only when the supply of U.S. stones fell below a certain amount. Then it made sure that the U.S. had no excuse to draw on the pile by shipping directly all the diamonds needed. The company had plenty, simply because it buys up surplus diamond production in slack times to keep stones off the market...
Best Platform. The Roer River flows into the Maas at Roermond. Last week the British Second Army moved up to the west bank all the way from the confluence down to the U.S. Ninth Army's left flank above Jülich. The Ninth also took up some slack...