Word: slackly
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...wrist, I pirouette in place, and no matter which way I lean or how hard, Ginger refuses to let me fall over. What's going on here is all perfectly explicable--the machine is sensing and reacting to subtle shifts in my balance--but for the moment I am slack-jawed, baffled. It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed...
...foot freshman guard Alex Gamboa will step into Leanza’s slot in the starting lineup, but it’s another freshman—the highly-touted Draughan—and Archibong who will need to pick up the slack in Leanza’s absence...
...pull it off. Perennially thought to be underestimated, Smith’s demeanor seems appropriate, but his past performances (think Wild, Wild West) do not elucidate remembrances of conviction or effectiveness. Regardless, Mann’s psychotically controlled direction and careful writing are sure to pick up the potential slack. It’s a bargain, but a sure-fire hit with audiences...
...with Harvard students, faculty, administrators and anyone else vaguely associated with the school until the magazine prints an apology for the article.” The next week, we received a letter from an ad hoc organization of civic-minded MIT students who offered to pick up the slack until that apology was forthcoming...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, Harvey’s teammates could not rise to the occasion and pick up the scoring slack. The Terrier box-and-one defense freed up the perimeter and coaxed Harvard into shooting from beyond the arc. Gellert and junior guard both went 0-for-4 from three-point range as the Crimson converted a miniscule nine percent of three-point shots...