Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stretched Blood. The blockade is hurting. The snail-pace behavior of the customs guards has crippled tourism. Gibraltar has tried to take up the slack with public-works projects and by passing laws to permit tax havens for small industry as well as Panama-style flags-of-convenience for shipowners...
Nasser claimed that this would hurt German trade more than Egypt and looked for aid elsewhere. A French technical mission is currently touring the country scouting possible projects; Poland has already offered to take up some of the slack; and Ulbricht himself has committed $83 million in East German money...
...funny in a way, particularly since the white Mississippian will nod his head zealously through about two-thirds of the spiel, until he gets the point. Slack-jawed indignation ensues. I am afraid, though, that you have ruined my sardonic joke. I got half way through your cover story before nausea overtook me, and it occurred to me that blind barbarism-in the Congo, in Mississippi-is the one citadel that will not tumble before mockery...
Skillful defense confined Harvard's Rick Zimmerman to 4 completions in 17 attempts and Yale's Billy Gales to 6 out of 20, but the Crimson picked up the slack with a rushing offense led by halfbacks Don Sadoski and Ron Kram...
...Crimson enters this meet near full strength. John Ogden is still suffering from a virus infection, but soccer player Keith Chiappa will be running to take up the slack...