Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson attack was stymied by the princeton defense which covered Williams and Watts like a blanket. The midfielders were nuwilling or unable to pick up the slack and move in to shoot them selves, and the result was let' argic, ineffective offense...
...anticipated. Dillon conceded that when a nation's industrial capacity is running full blast and consumer demand is strong, budget deficits "almost invariably lead to a rise in prices." But, said he. "I want to point out that the effect of a deficit on a slack economy is totally different from the effect of the same deficit on a full-employment economy...
Betting that there was not enough left of last fall's New England crop to take up the slack in East Coast markets, the bulls at the Mercantile Exchange contracted to buy 10,000 carloads of Maine potatoes at prices ranging from $1.95 to $3.20 per hundredweight for delivery May 14. By then, the bulls believe, potato prices will be up to $5 to $6 per hundredweight, leaving them a fat profit on their future contracts. The bears, who sold the bulls their contracts, are betting just as firmly that there are plenty of spuds in Maine and that...
...cease-fire negotiations near an end, and the nominal triumph of the Gaullist independence policy grows more likely, the dangers represented by a slack or disloyal police force are greater than ever. For the OAS's intention is no longer to seize power by a putsch, such as was attempted by Gens. Challe and Salan. It is trying, quite simply, to destroy civilian power, to provoke an all out civil war by intolerable violence. In effect, the OAS has embraced anarchy as its goal. Any continuing failure of the police to do its job--to administer the policies dictated...
...Southern France. The Broadway play is based on Death of a Man, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker's account of her husband's suicide. Charles Christian Wertenbaker was an able journalist (for FORTUNE, LIFE, and TIME from 1931 to 1948) turned novelist. Gift is strangely unmoving and dramatically slack, partly because the audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly because it never gets to know and care about the man himself, and partly because he opts for suicide as a way out before he even struggles with the un bearable pain that might have purged and shaken...