Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams held Harvard's high-scoring front line of Bob Inman, Barry Williams, and Merie McClung to 35 points, but two sharp-shooting guards took up the slack. Sophomore sensation Keith Sedlacek pumped in 14 points with his patented long jumper, and Leo Scully contributed...
...vicuna dressing gown. But Abercrombie never lost much sleep on the girls-if they insisted on coming along. Judging from what they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part of Margaret Macomber's hostility to her luckless husband must have been her feeling that she looked awful...
...Fred Borch will still have some problems. Two large and significant departments-atomic power and the new line of lower-priced digital computers -are both still in the red. And with world competition rising fast, the world's largest electrical equipment maker has some overcapacity. Taking up that slack will be the job of the marketing experts, who under the Cordiner revision won commanding power at G.E. The company's $300 million annual expenditure on research is the largest of any U.S. corporation, but it is G.E.'s marketing men rather than its researchers who have...
That leaves just half of last year's team still available. But two sophomores, Dave Benjamin and Southern Rhodesian Clive Kileff, are expected to take up some of the slack...
...these separate acts are interspersed and punctuated by the subdued gesturing of Oleg Popov, who is celebrated as one of the world's great clowns. A thoroughly trained circus performer, he can walk the tightwire or the slack wire; he is both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...