Word: slick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to paper over the Israeli withdrawal from Egypt and Gaza, the U.N. Emergency Force early last week drew up plans to run the Gaza Strip for a long "interim period." But one morning a mob of 300 Palestinian Arabs, shouting "Long Live Nasser" and waving slick-sloganed placards that could hardly have been printed in Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into the air, but not before...
THRILLS!'' trumpets the April cover of Dell's Modern Romances. Wails quarterly Secret Confessions' current cover line: "I COMMITTED ADULTERY!" Inside the slick color covers, the so-called "confession" or "romance" magazines come through with sagas of sex and suffering that make the most lurid tabloid story read like Mother Goose. In the current issue of Standard Magazines' True Life Stories, a teen-ager in 7,000 action-packed words recounts her father's suicide, her poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss...
Thirty-five others were rescued as were all 23 aboard the S.S. Elna II. Fifteen of the rescued--some pulled from the flaming oil-slick--required hospital treatment. Others were ministered to by rescuers. None were reported in serious condition...
...this was no bellywhopping slide over a gentle snow-covered slope. On his beefed-up steel "skeleton," Bibbia was running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping...
Again and again executive wives themselves state firmly that the only sensible approach to the goal of being an ideal executive wife is to relax and forget about emulating a prototype. As Mrs. Charles Vychopen, wife of the traffic director of Slick Airways, put it: "You can't afford to get too inhuman about everything, and you can't be too sophisticated about how you act. The best thing is just to try to be yourself...