It's the cowards and the quitters and the slackers and dodgers that need this war more than the patriotic ones who are willing to buckle on and go!

Us women who are helping to foster slackers.

And as I realized this I felt the grip of my arms growing slacker, and knew that in a second or two I should feel that long Indian steel.

Under the law a "voluntary army of workers" signed up as ready to go anywhere their labor was needed, and local munition committees became labor courts endowed with power to change wage rates, to inflict fines on slackers, and on those who broke the agreements of the "voluntary army.

These were carried up the beach to trucks on a line connected with the supply depôts, and if you wished to see a busy scene where slackers had no place the Belah beach gave it you.

There was no room for slackers in the Army, and the value of each truck was so high that it could not be left standing idle for an hour.

After this, I spent a few minutes in the market-place, which was "slacker" than usual, as might be expected, for, as the Scotch proverb says, "Sillerless folk gang fast through the market."

I think I've spotted a few slackers, but mighty few.

CHAPTER XIV THE SLACKER One thing, I wished Tom Slade was there, because he was the best tracker we ever had.

It was bad enough having a slacker in my patrol without having a liar.

It was the word slacker.

They still believe we are a nation of "slackers" because we don't shriek with them.

We're slackers and slouchers and the Germans are too many for us.

We are most of us slackers at the bottom, and need the discipline of a timetable to keep us on the move.

"This sort of slacker," said the Senior Captain bitterly, as with infinite toil he scraped the last of the glaze from the inside of the marmalade pot, "is the sort that doesn't realise that there's a war on.

The premium thus put on baseness filled this countryand all the otherswith volunteer detectives, gentlemen, men of letters, many of them slackers, who bought their own security with the safety of others, calling their denunciations by the name of patriotism.

There were the slackers, who often descended to the lowest depths of meanness to make others fight, so that it should be forgotten that they did not fight themselves.

And once they were there the young fellows who weren't "quite ready to decide" and the others who were just plain slackers, willing to let better men die for them, found it mighty hard to keep from going on the wee rest of the way that the pipers had left them to make alone!

All who were not slackers were doing their part every one.

It's the slackers who couldn't or wouldn't see their duty men should feel sorry for!

Ah, there were no slackers in Scotland!

They are peaceful folk, and slow to war, but when they have set their hands to it, though they may be slack to begin, they are slacker still to cease.

Tommy gave Mr. Punch his cue, and his high example was not thrown away on those at home, where, when all allowance is made for shirkers and slackers and scaremongers, callous pleasure-seekers, faint-hearted pacificists, rebels and traitors, the great majority so bore themselves as to convince Mr. Punch that it was not only a privilege but a duty to minister to mirth even at times when one hastened to laugh for fear of being obliged to weep.

He's been merciless in his prosecution of slackers and draft evaders and has made himself quite famous.

Some of them had been slackers, rebels against discipline, "hard cases."