Word: slicking
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Naturally, the President heard about the white paper. He beat the Republi cans to press with a slick, green-covered, 27-page pamphlet of his own called Why Viet Nam?; naturally, it was based on a letter he had received from the mother of a serviceman. He then de cided to hold his first press conference in a month on the very day the G.O.P. paper was to appear. Outmaneuvered, the Republicans, led by Michigan's Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, hastened publication of their humbler, mimeographed effort by a day, misnumbering the pages...
...from tee to green. "Ridiculous," said Julius Boros. Another pro wailed that the fairways were so narrow, "you have to walk them single file." Ditches and water hazards bisected twelve of the 18 holes-to say nothing of 74 sand traps, 6-in.-deep Bermuda rough, and the big, slick greens. Complained one golfer: "It's like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the fourth step...
...playgrounds with their slick stretches of asphalt, colorful, convoluted slides and free-form sculptures for climbing, are among the world's safest, cleanest and most indestructible. But are they what children want? Of course not, says Lady Allen of Hurtwood, 68, a prominent British landscape architect and president of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. After a month's survey of the East Coast's showpiece playgrounds, the no-nonsense dowager observed crisply that they are "an administrator's heaven and a child's hell." Said she: "It is time we decide whether...
...with surprising ease. Often, one of them would clamber to the top of a tank, drop in a weighted tape measure, then shout down to an Amexco inspector on the ground that the tank was 90% full. Sometimes the tanks were indeed full-with water, topped by a thin slick of oil. Usually many were empty. Moreover, the tanks were connected by a jungle of pipes; Tino's men sometimes sneaked into the casually guarded tank farm on weekends, pumped oil from one tank to another. These machinations gave him an endless supply of oil certificates-and endless borrowing...
...shame, Scotland Yard! Nobody in England ought to be able to get away with kidnaping toffs, and they certainly shouldn't be able to keep the victim stashed away for four whole years. The caper involved the Dulce of Wellington, stolen by a slick artnaper from London's National Gallery in 1961 just after the British government had spent $392,000 to buy the Goya masterpiece back from U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman. While sleuths looked high and low, the thief sent ransom notes, first demanding full value, then offering to settle for $140,000. "When the fuss...