Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjects, Sunday in the city is "a great gap surrounded by walls, emptied of one week and not yet filled with the next." To another, "Christmas is a hateful time; the bunting was pretending to tie up a whole city into one cozy bundle. But the string was too slack. Odd pieces like Meyer kept falling...
Taking the Lead. Representatives of the 61 I.C.O. member nations-both producers and consumers-met in London last week to thrash out a solution to the price problems. Because of slack demand, coffee has slipped in the past year from 4310 per Ib. to 3810. To prop the price at a more acceptable level, the I.C.O. in all probability will slash producers' export quotas to bring supply more in line with demand. In the four years since the I.C.O. was set up, such klatsches have helped stabilize the market to the benefit of growers and drinkers alike...
Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
...these words Jonathan sank into shame for he was much afeared of tigers. The angel of the Lord was sore angry at this and proclaimed "Thou darest not be so slack of courage," and with twain he gave Jonathan a blow which made him sore...
Many economists feel that artificially stimulated demand is preferable to a slack economy and unemployment. Not that capitalism would collapse without it, as is often charged. But if this constant stimulation were removed, it would have to be replaced by something else-public works, massive government spending, a shortened week. To some, America's hyped-up consumption seems vaguely immoral as well as untenable in the long run. John Kenneth Galbraith has likened it to the squirrel on a treadwheel. Yet he and other economists agree that there is really nothing wrong with the process, provided that a sufficient...