Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious target, but the sideburns holding up the slack in his jaws have the look of authenticity...
...full steam, since the kolkhoz has no other resources but their work. But people will not work for the kolkhoz because they are not well paid. How can I break the circle? Party officials tell me. 'You're not a good leader. Your agitation-educational work is slack.' But how do you propagandize today's kolkhoznik? Without the ruble the agitation doesn't reach him . . . That's the whole question...
Freeman has a bulky domain to administer. Its budget, about $7 billion a year, is more than twice the combined expenditures of the Commerce, Interior, Justice, Labor and State departments. As of last January, a relatively slack time for Agriculture, the department had on the payroll 96,104 employees. Of these, only 11,807 were stationed in the District of Columbia and environs. The remaining 84,297 were scattered among thousands of outposts in the 50 states and numerous foreign countries. The number of farms and farmers in the U.S. keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture...
...defendants at Vincennes were an odd. and oddly frightening, lot. Most of them were slack-jawed youths who seemed equally lacking in confidence and intelligence. One was an army lieutenant with the old, aristocratic Breton name of Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, and a head reeling with heroic memories of his family's feats of arms dating back to the Crusades. The leader, Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, who had graduated from the famed Polytechnique and served as a brilliant air force engineer, revealed himself as a man who put great industry, intelligence and logic to work within...
Harvard's usually reliable distance runners were trounced by Holy Cross Saturday night, but the Crimson's sprinters and field event men picked up the slack and led the home track team to a 68-41 victory over the Crusaders...