Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth adjusted to it. Then it's slick and smooth and just comes out easy...
Various schemes for survival are being tried. Though specialized magazines for priests have had their own troubles lately, Father Clifford Stevens of Santa Fe, N. Mex., has recently launched a slick, readable monthly called Schema XIII (after the Vatican II document on the church in the modern world), which tries to overcome the stodgy clerical image of competing periodicals. Methodists and Presbyterians have joined to launch a new "multimedia" mission magazine, New World Outlook, replete with poster-size foldouts and stapled-in phonograph records. The Roman Catholic Maryknoll fathers have announced a new line of "Third World" books about problems...
...aimed at the young who regard fashion as "an opportunity for self-expression, fulfillment of little head trips, a chance to try something different, to break tradition and stereotype." Adds Editor Mary Peacock, 27, a former staffer at Harper's Bazaar: "Fashion is not fashionable any more. The slick magazines are always telling you how you should look. We do it the other way around. We report what people are wearing without trying to change them...
...another "freeze and squeeze" on wages and profits. "That's life with Labor. Four years squeeze and four months sunshine," Heath told crowds. Not on speaking terms with his rival, he zeroed in on Harold Wilson's credibility. Time and again he appealed to "those who despise the slick trick, the easy promise" to turn the Labor rascals out. Heath even raised the fear that Wilson, who devalued the pound in 1967, might be forced to do so again...
...letter was extraordinary not only because a Cabinet member felt compelled to criticize the Administration, but because the source was Hickel. To most liberals, intellectuals and environmentalists, he had all the allure of an oil slick when he became Richard Nixon's Interior Secretary, An Alaska millionaire, onetime real estate magnate and hotel owner, he was widely viewed as a yes man for business, more interested in conglomerates than conservation. Since Hickel took over Interior, however, he has shown himself to be deeply concerned about environmental issues and willing to work with young activists to get the job done...