Los Angeles International Airport , is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California, United States. It is often referred to by its airport code LAX, with the letters pronounced individually. LAX is located in southwestern Los Angeles in the neighborhood of Westchester. It is located 16 miles (27km) from the downtown core
orig. Halldór Kiljan Gudjónsson born April 23, 1902, Reykjavík, Ice. died Feb. 8, 1998, near Reykjavík Icelandic novelist. He converted to Roman Catholicism while traveling in Europe as a young man but later dissociated himself from Christianity and turned to socialism, an ideology reflected in his novels from the 1930s and '40s. Works exploring the social issues of Iceland include Salka Valka (1936), which deals with the plight of working people in a fishing village; Independent People (1935), the story of an impoverished farmer's struggle for economic independence; and the nationalist trilogy Iceland's Bell (1943-46). His later works were more lyrical and introspective. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955
emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope" pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed e
If you say that a person's behaviour or a system is lax, you mean they are not careful or strict about maintaining high standards. One of the problem areas is lax security for airport personnel There have been allegations from survivors that safety standards had been lax + laxity lax·ity The laxity of export control authorities has made a significant contribution to the problem. not strict or careful enough about standards of behaviour, work, safety etc = slack lax in (doing) sth (laxus )
lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G K Chesterton; "a slack grip"