Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most unpleasant dilemma; if it tries to use radical techniques to improve industrial efficiency and solve pressing problems of housing, poverty, transportation, and education it will face the danger of losing a necessarily close vote of confidence. But if Labor decides instead to avoid risk and float with slack sails it may be pulled under by the problems left by the Tories, especially the impending balance of trade crisis...
...Cornell varsity team that visits Harvard today is a far cry from the Power that beat the Crimson a year ago. Gone are Jim Byard and Steve Machooka, and those returning are hardly enough to take up the slack...
...Giant Step. In theory, stretch fabrics have been around since 1947, when the discovery of vertically stretchable textured yarn hit the slopes, making ski pants a stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient after it is woven) left cottons and wools horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther...
Even if both are able to go today, it's unlikely they'll be running at full strength. Hopefully, some of the slack will be taken up by soccer player Keith Chiappa, who ran with the cross-country team against Providence and "may run this time," according to Coach Bill McCurdy...
...done him in, maybe the hopelessness of his cause in the Northeast had quelled any enthusiasm, but Goldwater, having long ago descended from the rarefied, steely heights of the Cow Palace, spoke with a weary, methodical voice, like a man tramping through a bog. His campaign was at slack tide, and Goldwater showed what George Gallup et. al. have been telling us all along...