Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories about Negro servicemen in Viet Nam (few of the papers oppose the U. S. involvement). "They can return with or without the Medal of Honor," says Chicago Defender Reporter Betty Washington. "We don't care. They're our people." When Amsterdam News Education Reporter Sara Slack writes up some child's achievement in school, she often mentions the occupation of the child's parents: janitor, domestic, whatever. "We let the Negro child know," she says, "that he doesn't have to come from a family of doctors or lawyers to succeed in life...
...Drug Experience. That slack is often the product of the drug experience. Defenders of the hippie subculture liken it to a super-Eucharistic ritual, one that has brought drug users, particularly of LSD ("the mind detergent") and the other synthetic hallucinogens, into epistemological experience and thus changed their lives forever. Detractors, many of them former hippies themselves, maintain that the religious turn-on is spurious, that true enlightenment can only come through "natural" means, the meditations and mystical experiences common to every religion in history. Still, in its variety and virulence, the hippie pharmacopoeia is the subculture's most...
...United Nations economic sanctions. The bustling capital of Salisbury is alive with fashion-conscious white shoppers. As before, parking is a problem. Car owners have had ample supplies of fuel furnished by the kindred regime of South Africa. And new factories, created since the crisis to take up the slack in imports, are producing more of everything from ballpoint pens to refrigerators. Now, however, a government announcement indicates that Rhodesia has, in fact, some very real troubles...
Then, by doing a little arithmetic, Jacobs arrived at what he calls the "Jacobs Crowd Formula": pace off the length and breadth of any crowd, add the two figures, multiply by seven for a slack crowd, by ten for a dense...
Premier Chou En-lai also ordered the Guards to slack off in their humiliations of purged party officials, many of whom have been forced to wear dunce caps while being dragged through city streets...