Word: slickness
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When Chicago closed the gap 3-2 before the middle session ended, Stasiuk made sure on a slick pass from Bucyk who had carried the puck into the Hawk zone and flipped a shot high into the net over Hall's shoulder...
Still in its first season, The Charles St. Theater is proving itself one of the finest off-Broadway playhouses--finer than a great many of the increasingly slick off-Broadway theaters in New York...
...Virginia and neighboring Pennsylvania. In other years, Schaus's boys from back home too often panicked at the first tweak of big-time pressure; last year, for example, West Virginia collapsed in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament. But this year the Mountaineers went at it with slick skill, won the high-pressure Kentucky Invitational tournament by snapping the winning streak (at 37) of North Carolina, last year's national champions...
...Webster's: "After S. A. Maverick (1803-70), a Texas cattle owner who did not brand his calves, 1) An unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf; 2) a refractory individual who bolts his group and initiates an independent course." Garner's own definition: "A sort of freewheeling slick...
Clarkson had one or two fast skaters who occasionally showed up with some slick passing, but they were thoroughly outdone by the excellent performances of the Crimson's three centers...