Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of it, the production looked like a sure winner. The cast stars Kim Hunter and Ronny Graham, no longer the New Face he was when Leonard Sillman discovered him, but a slicker performer. And Max Shulman was in on the writing. Besides, it is the first comedy of the new season and the theatregoer set off, hope springing autumnal in his breast...
...C.I.O. Auto Workers' international educational conference at Chicago, cannot be fought with more tyranny. And since McCarthy launched his Red hunt four years ago, "we have been victims ... of a kind of shell game. We have been treated like country rubes, to be taken in by a city slicker from Appleton...
Measured by the city slicker yardstick, farmers' Cadillacs are getting longer each year. No doubt a number of men in farming, as in all industries, prospered in the years following the war. But sobering statistics show that even in good times the average farmer earns less than a dollar an hour, including the food he grows for his family. Even so, farmers are concerned not so much with increasing their slice of the economic pie as insuring that they get it every year...
...white-haired lawyer from Wall Street sat in a straw hut at Panmunjom last week, while Chinese and North Korean Communists on the other side of the table paid him their respects. "Warmonger! Liar! Rogue! Slicker!" they cried. "You are bloody-handed, deceitful, stupid. We must warn you to behave!" The American leaned back and laughed...
After a night as the President's house guests, the royal couple moved across the street to Blair House and began a nonstop, two-day official tour. At Mount Vernon, in a pouring rain, the slicker-clad King placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. At the next wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington Cemetery, the Queen tweaked the nose of a small boy who was standing nearby. "What a doll!" sighed a girl under an umbrella. "That's a lot of king," murmured a man, as the 6-ft. 4-in. Paul passed by. At lunch...