Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mitchell (North American B-25). Production of the Mitchell will be increased to take up the slack left by Marauder reduction. Famed for the Tokyo raid, the Mitchell has proved a rugged, speedy, well-defended and reliable air craft. It now becomes the U.S.'s chief reliance for medium bombers, a class which in time may be superseded entirely by the more versatile fighter bombers like the Lockheed Lightning...
Fact v. Opinion. One radioman who has worried greatly over this slack-mouthed matter is CBS News Editor Paul White. Recently Paul White, who has an able staff of warcasters, told the Associated Press Managing Editors Association that commentators should be forbidden to editorialize on the news...
Fortunately, Mr. Acadian, despite his slack-lipped way of called the Yard, the "Yard," comes up with a solution, and a darn good one it it, too. A football game with Yale why not? I have the cutes raccoon coat, and a cunning little hip flash knocking around somewhere in the back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these...
Then followed days of fighting to take up the slack in an eight-mile line which, as it tightened, threatened to be a tourniquet for Salamaua...
...Washington had not said bluntly, "Do not travel"; but it had said "Do not travel far; travel, if you must, only on slack days...