Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
...this moment, Russia finally came through in southern Poland with what the Germans called "the greatest offensive of all time" (see below). Instantly the slack in the ring around Germany snapped taut; instantly the eastern front became a magnet pulling on German reserves, including those with which Rundstedt was still toying in the west. Much was hoped for from this new Red assault, both as a military contribution and as a balm for inter-Allied political tensions...
...This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend to take up economic slack, once formed; it intends that there shall be no slack...
...much like private enterprises on a box-office basis-but with this important difference: there can be no such thing as a "turkey" in Moscow. At the moment all Moscow theaters are making money; but if anything went wrong with any one theater, the State would take up the slack...
White House correspondents had not seen Franklin Roosevelt for 38 days. Many of them had watched newsreels to see how he looked; had seen the San Diego railroad-car film of his Democratic Convention speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed...