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Word: slacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similarly well off. It loses all-American linebacker Chris Zingo, but Zingo's two linebacking partners, seniors John Vitullo and John Wagner, are back and should almost compensate for his loss. The squad's defensive line and secondary--both extremely experienced--should take up the rest of the slack...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: The beginning of an era | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Shame is stuffed with such slack reasoning and prose. But bad writers deserve the same freedoms as good ones. If, as is to be hoped, Nasrin gets out of her troubles, she may even prove that persecution is a smart career move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane Austen She's Not | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard is not all work. It seems that if you want to slack nearly all term, you can, because of reading periods. As one member of the class of 1996 put it "I've never played so much Sega Soccer in my life...

Author: By Eddie Scannell, | Title: My Life at Harvard (Summer School) | 8/2/1994 | See Source »

...addition to those heroic performances, were the performances of a bevy of faceless freshmen and sophomores who had the task of picking up the team's slack shoved at them at various points in the year...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Wrestlers Start Well, But End Year On Back | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...fact, a committee assigned to review the success of reading period in 1930 also saw the plan as one which catered to self-starting honors students--in contrast to the situation today, when a reading period without assignments seems best suited for those who slack off during the semester...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Reading Period Designed for Profs | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

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