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Word: slicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size hail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skidding To Disaster | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...overcome these image problems, Barak has imported James Carville, Bill Clinton's own image magician, to turbo-charge his campaign. Indeed, a friend of mine in Israel remarked just yesterday that Barak appears so slick in his ads that "he could be Bill Clinton." So Clintonesque is one of his ads about how Netanyahu mismanaged the economy that you can almost hear Barak say "Bibi, it's the economy, stupid!" And why shouldn't Barak play the campaign game American style? The photogenic Benjamin Netanyahu is a master image-maker who himself retains an American campaign guru, Arthur Finkelstein. Politics...

Author: By David P. Honig, | Title: Referendum on the Peace Process? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Before my boy's obvious old school knowledge, the other cat's golden age stance was silenced. Instead he changed the subject to whether Slick Rick's British accent was authentic...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...further the mainstream pushes Michael Moore away, the more tenacious he gets. He has been banished all the way to Bravo, and though his new show is not as slick as his last (TV Nation), it's even more hard-hitting. Moore bothers Big Business again, as he does when he invites Humana execs to the mock funeral of a man whose pancreas transplant has been denied by the insurers. It's unusual to find an angry liberal in this economy, but Moore makes a better case for the working guy than any politician out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Awful Truth | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...helped his own cause by picking off second baseman Jeff Lawler in the first and starting a slick 1-4-3 double play in the fourth...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Two Games Up in Rolfe | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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