Word: slick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicted that popular practitioner in purple prose, United Mine Workers President John Llewelyn Lewis, when his brain child was born eleven years ago. Last week the U.M.W.'s employer-financed Welfare and Retirement Fund mailed out its slick-paper annual report, bound in a red velvetlike cover, and the statistics in it were nearly as impressive as old John L.'s prose. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the fund took in $157 million (its best year, largely because of increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) - a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) - a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
Highballing down a well-marked highway last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...