Word: slackened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have another go.'' This time he managed to tie a hemp rope around Moss's chest. Slowly but strongly the rope was pulled taut, and Neil Moss moved 18 in. upward, then got stuck fast again. His breathing stopped, and the rescuers had to slacken their chest hold until respiration started again. Another man, John Larson, spent 1½ hours unsuccessfully trying to budge Moss's right arm. "The carbon dioxide fumes make you lightheaded," he said, "and you think you see elephants and fairies...
...Shakespearean achievements at the Antioch Festival in Ohio and elsewhere, but the sun is shining most brightly over Stratford, Connecticut. If great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well as their privilege...
...Tigers' 300-yard medley relay team of Jay Harbeck, Pat Shannon, and Orville Mann has put together a time of 2:55.4. This clocking would not allow the Crimson's Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer to slacken the 2:52.4 record pace they set at Dartmouth last week. In their home pool the Crimson may go faster...
Though lacking sharpness, A View is for most of the way powerful and tense. Only near the end do things slacken, so that the play concludes with no great tragic impact. This may partly lie in Van Heflin, who, playing a character that Miller made more obsession than man, is wanting, for all his competence, in Italian nature and intensity...
History is littered with the wrecks of great enterprises that failed simply because of their initial success-because, as things get easier, free peoples habitually slacken off. The Soviet technique at Geneva was to see to what extent outward bonhomie could save them from having to make real alterations in course...