Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken man was twirling a revolver. He swung around, his eyes full of cunning, and threw his free arm around the neck of the man nearest...
Passengers who had waited up to three weeks for seats on both Braniff and C.M.A., except during the short off-season slack, would question this statement. Tom Braniff questioned it immediately. Said he: "The order of the minister ... is merely one of a long series of actions unfriendly to Aerovias Braniff, but showing partiality to Pan American Airways and its Mexican subsidiary...
Missing from its usual place at the top of the list was the group from China, which this year numbers only four, instead of the normal complement of 15. Some of the slack, however, is taken in by the increase of the European delegation, and in that of students from the British West Indies to three...
...rehired. Said Briggs: perhaps January, perhaps not till April. The industry had hoped to turn out 500,000 cars in October. Instead, Ward's automotive reports estimated that production would now be only 356,000, down to where it was in August. Packard Sales Manager Lyman W. Slack gloomily predicted: "The average person simply will not be able to buy a car until well into...
Perhaps the most exciting thing that heavyset, slack-jowled George Zook ever did was propagandizing in World War I under George Creel. A Methodist and ex-Rotarian, he taught history at Pennsylvania State College, spent eight able but unspectacular years as president of Ohio's University of Akron. President Roosevelt named him U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1933. One year later Zook resigned to take the A.C.E...