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Word: slicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muhammad Kenyatta, of the Black Economic Development Conference, was one of those pushing hardest for a strong re-ordering of priorities. Addressing the assembly Wednesday night, he lambasted the liberal establishment in a heated, rambling polemic, scorning targets from the late Robert Kennedy ("slick-ass") to the conference itself ($55 registration keeps the poor out). The message was simple, and it was repeated: the people with the cash had better "cut loose" their "ill-gotten gains." He was enthusiastic as he ended, bringing half of the middle-class crowd to their feet in applause. A welfare mother from Maine, Carolyn...

Author: By Douglas A. Pike, | Title: Clergy, Laymen, and George Jackson | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

...Pepper's. The "San Francisco Sound" and the "heavy" English sound are all derivative of Beck's work on Over, Under, Sideways, Down. His emphasis on solid chord progression and his use of electronic distortion gave his music the sledge hammer quality we associate with Jimi Hendrix and Grace Slick. It was during this period that Beck was doing his most famous work: "Shapes of Things," "Hot House of Omagarashid," and "Jeff's Boogie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Need OK On Waterbeds | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

...freshman soccer team set up three slick goals early on, then petered off in the second half, but still shut out the weak Exeter varsity 3-0 at Exeter Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Whip Exeter; Potts Bangs in Two | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Thanks to a Canadian invention called the Oilevator, grimy beaches and greasy seagulls may soon be a thing of the past -provided the machine, nicknamed the "slick-licker," can get to the scene on time. The brainchild of Canadian Engineer Richard Sewell, the licker passed its biggest test last year when a tanker was grounded in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, and began gushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Slick-Licker | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Oilevator is dirt cheap (about $7,500 per machine), and it has worked so well that a government task force has recommended that at least one slick-licker be placed in each Canadian port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Slick-Licker | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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