Word: slicking
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...when Paco's friend gave him the cartoon from the slick girlie mag, he thought it was funny and hung it up next to the eagle and laughed at it al the while never understanding the message. His roommates understood, even the sadistic chem major. They called Paco "Super-Mex" and offered to make him an honorary gringo, and they even bought him the black leather briefcase for his birthday...
...Last week their worst fears were realized. As a team of specialists worked desperately to shut off the flow, oil spewed from a blown-out well in the Norwegian Ekofisk concession at a rate of some 4,000 tons a day. The spill drifted generally eastward in a slimy slick 32 kilometers (20 miles) long that not only threatened the coasts of Scandinavia but also seemed likely to affect the future of the offshore oil program...
...Harry, the paper's erstwhile investigative ace, who knows it would be as phony to decry his lost innocence as to try to preserve it. Harry's girl friend, the staff photographer who is torn between career and romance, is well played by Lindsay Crouse. Stephen Collins is suitably slick as the ambitious book writer, and Jill Eikenberry makes a winsome receptionist-cum-presiding spirit. Some of the secondary roles blur into caricature in the writing but are still brought off with zest?notably by Jeff Goldblum as the freeloading rock critic...
...Country Club is a demanding task-master under normal conditions but the slick greems seem to more than pocket handkerchiefs when the wind is billowing. Although Vik and Paxton posted the Crimson's lowest scores, they hit only five greens in regulation. A fierce wind during the 1963 U.S. Open held at the Country Club exacted the highest winning total in 18 years--Julius Boros's nine-over...
Bowdoin's final goal came on a slick, sneak-around-from-behind-the crease move by Sullivan with two minutes left to play...