Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dooley noted that the defensive play of both Amy Hartung and Jane Kalinski "picked up the slack" in the absence of starter Chritine Burns...
...need for the incantation. Of course, to be fair, any period of adjustment is rough on the nerves. It gets all the more complicated when you find yourself running short on patience and long on temper -- a consequence of having age. And if you don't cut yourself some slack somewhere in this stretch, you may overhear a relative phoning the guys in the white jackets. Maestro, eight bars of some "for instance" music, please...
...think we have a great team," Harvard forward Tim Barakett said. "We have a lot of balance. If someone's not having a good game, there's always someone who takes up the slack. But it's true, we're head and shoulders above a lot of the other teams in the league...
...Tonight was a good night because it gave us a chance to see how some of the other swimmers could do," Costin Scalise said. "Some members of the team were a little tired in the water, but I was happy to see the rest picking up the slack...
...Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading rice, went slack. Cretini switched to shrimping. So did scores of other unemployed Louisianans. At last look, the Lake Charles' unemployment rate was 14.8%, more than double the national average. A local official estimates that there are 2,000 commercial shrimpers working these waters where just a few years back there were...