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Word: slacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredibly smart." Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer whose sentences can glow like rare blooms, as when she reports that the air above an orchid swamp's sinkholes "has the slack, drapey weight of wet velvet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Orchid Thief By Susan Orlean | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...audience to become truly involved in the increasingly complicated plotline, the production's pace cannot go slack. Wait Until Dark is a psychological chess game: We must be privy to all of Suzie's moves and the thought process driving them...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone in the 'Dark' | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

After Fisher enjoyed an effective first half, hitting 3-of-3 for eight points, Ewing helped pick up his slack in the second, converting on four attempts from the key for eight of the Crimson's first 13 points of the frame. The pair finished with a combined 20 on 9-of-16 shooting...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ewing Throws Block Party; Beam Rains Threes | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...hammered his opponents on education and took slack for Somerville's questionable education record, but survived...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mr. Capuano Goes to Washington | 11/18/1998 | See Source »

Both Sproule and Hyland were role players, and Hyland was not a consistent starter for the team. Sproule added physicality, but if Harvard's new recruits play to their potential, they should easily make up the slack...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: High Expectations Set for M. Hockey | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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