Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports indicate that Harvard looked better on the trip than at any other time during the season. Jeff Grate has provided valuable, although generally overlooked, offensive and defensive help from the backcourt, and 6-3 sophomore Ernie Hardy has been taking up some of the slack caused by Barth Royer's illness-induced absence from the lineup...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...
...dirt-topped back roads of eastern Kentucky's poverty-blighted Wolfe, Breathitt, Knott, Harlan and Letcher counties, halting in hidden hollows at weather-bleached wood and tar-paper shanties sagging with neglect. And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from hunger spoke of their need...
...qualities that have made Harris, at 70, an important American composer: logical structure, transparent textures and a broad melodic sense. Yet in the performance of the somewhat underrehearsed Philharmonic-under Harris' unpracticed baton-the mainspring that should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully effective. In the second section, an elegiac fugue turned slowly on itself, then began to meander...
Captain Bobby Beller has taken up some of Royer's slack. Shootin better then he has since freshman year. Beller has started hitting his line drive jumper with greater frequency. Jeff Grate's in sertion in the starting lineup gives the Crimson a little more strength defensively, but he isn't scoring enough...