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Word: slick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie audiences. Sex had to be put in rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Fox & Sweet November | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Yardlings will take on the slick Princeton freshman team Saturday at the IAB in what should prove to be one of the season's tightest battles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Swimmers Defeat Exeter for Fifth Win | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

...private French preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: The Man to Beat | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...absolutely nothing, small-time about Pierre Aunay. Standing trial on eight separate charges-ranging from jail breaking to cashing phony money orders-Aunay pleaded innocent on all counts. He was, he explained to the court, far too big a crook to have committed such insignificant crimes and far too slick a crook to be caught for the crimes he did commit. Not that the police had not tried. "As Commissaire Benhamou of the Judicial Police once admitted to me," testified Aunay, " 'every time we can't solve a crime, we blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Con Man's Con Man | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...most excitement of the day may come when the Tigers' super-soph Geoff Petrie matches up with Columbia's McMillian. Both are good ball handlers with slick moves. They probably won't play head-to-head most of the game but there may be moments of struggle...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Even Without Bradley, Princeton Still Challenges for League Title | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

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