Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raiders burned the Crimson out of the blocks, taking a 24-14 lead midway through the half as sophomore guard Damian Long and junior shooting guard Mike Beam struggled to pick up Hill's slack at the point...
What gives this the overtone of Greek tragedy is how utterly avoidable it was, if the President had exercised the slightest bit of restraint. Already given a lot of slack by voters who believed he was an adulterer but elected him anyway, the President had only to comply with the minimal standard of presidential marital conduct: Don't have sex in the White House with a woman not your wife (no one thought to add "intern"). In these sexually perilous times, we all know lawyers and businessmen who won't meet in a hotel room with a colleague...
...course, with public opinion on trade policy, as with entitlement policy, there is a certain amount of slack. Most Americans don't follow the ins and outs of the latest Uruguay Round. As long as there's no "giant sucking sound," many Americans are more or less indifferent...
...Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private code they dare not question. They alone remain semper...
...aurvery also showed that when advisors are not signing the study cards, it's not House tutors, Faculty or other graduate students who are picking up the slack; it's staff...