Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD'S JUSTIFICATIONS for the wage differential are as slick as those it invoked in 1929 to justify firing the janitors. Harvard claims that its employees enjoy unusual job security despite the fact that six printers on the night shift were permanently laid off several years ago due to automation. Harvard claims that its new pension plan, by ending the traditional $3.50 worker contribution to the fund, means that the workers are actually getting a 7-per-cent wage increase in each of the next two years. The strikers have a different viewpoint. The plan under which Harvard...
...death or to make the process of dying a burden upon the living is not in the highest tradition of medicine, nor is it justified in the humanist tradition." Basically, this is the argument employed by Marya Mannes in her case for euthanasia. Last Rights is, however, a slick, documentary-like series of sketches, each one muttering, never crying out, in favor of euthanasia. She recalls, in lurid detail, visits to old-age homes and intensive care units; she interviews doctors, nurses, families and the dying themselves; she dutifully records the legal history of mercy killing. Her sketches, unfortunately, lose...
Ruth matched his play on the field with his playing on the town. He partied every night and a New York City policeman often would encounter a drunk Ruth barrelling down a one-way street the wront way in one of his slick automobiles. More often than not, however, the policeman would not only pardon him, but would offer to drive him the rest of the way home. All this carousing eventually lead to marital problems and after the death of his first wife from whom he was already separated, Ruth married Claire Hodgson, who is still alive...
Durso slashed out hits last year at a rate of .395, second in the league behind teammate Hampe. Stoeckel was voted first team All-EIBL in '73 behind his slick glove work and a .335 bat (fourth in the league...
...looked more scrappy than tough, more homely than slick--like the kind of man who would be named Studs. Terkel spoke energetically in a voice loaded with street flavor and professional resonance...