Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after day, sitting back of headquarters' tent, he gave haircuts to all comers, generals and privates alike. When business grew slack he brewed coffee for anybody who wanted it. Though he spoke only Polish, Ziggy managed to convey the fact that he was a cheerful, eager guy who liked to work...
...only self-sustaining, but personnel and equipment of its units are interchangeable. . . . As soon as a plant in one complex is bombed out, its workers may be transported to a similar plant in another complex to be put on as an additional shift there and thus take up the slack caused by loss of the plant from which they have just been driven...
Slim, 42-year-old George Price looks most like one of his own harassed, slack-jowled characters when he is drawing them. He commonly throws his face out of joint trying to get their wacky crankinesses into line. Small-mustached, small and quick of eye, he looks normally like the art director of a small advertising agency. He was one once. Before that he inspected solder connections for General Electric...
...bank accounts and other "idle" money, to keep dollars working and prevent slack times. A tax on spending in booms to hedge against inflation...
Most of Skelton's comedy is Bob Hope laid on with a ball bat. Red goofed up over a kiss, Red getting off lines like "I press men's pants but this is the slack season," appeals chiefly to the primordial. But now & then Skelton's broad and cheerful silliness-notably in one stretch of pantomime, upholstering himself in a false beard-comes so thick & fast that the effect is like being held down and tickled...