Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy announced last week. It was tested last July over the coast of Georgia. The usual tactic was to attach a package of 1-2 Ibs. of carbon black to a static line and toss it out of an airplane flying through the top of a cloud. When the slack snapped out of the line, the package broke open, releasing the carbon black. Seven clouds out of seven tested dissipated entirely in 2½ to 20 minutes...
...Currently, however, the flow is being reversed; benefits and other payments are exceeding receipts, and there will be a decline in holdings this year." Now that the Government trust funds are reducing their holdings, Secretary Anderson said that the nation's private savings institutions should take up the slack. Since June, many insurance companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations and pension funds have kept out of the Government bond market, instead have been buying higher-yielding corporate bonds or stocks as a hedge against inflation...
...fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could be taken to mean one thing only," nowadays a man never can tell. So, while Marie cooks, her visitor paces. Staring through the window, he spots "two slack dead pairs of men's socks" on a laundry cord-and instantly he is jealous...
...waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...
...Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago, "will not allow a tiny, militant minority to take over Central High School and run it under mob rule." Gazette circulation dropped from 99,573 to 88,068, while the pro-Faubus Arkansas Democrat took up the slack. Ashmore refused to be bullied, and an attempted advertising boycott failed...