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Word: slicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lugging their suitcases with "Indians" sipped on the slick upholstery, they've come "like the bad weather." one Harvard cop remarked yesterday-unwanted and out of nowhere...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Calypso Singers Laugh at Them; The (Indian) Circus Is In Town | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...WESTERN BONANZA edited by Jod-hunter Ballard. 419 pages. Doubleday. $6.95. Slick fairy tales from everybody's Old West wholesomely packaged as "frontier folklore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...slick field and 30-degree temperatures hampered the Crimson attack. While dominating play, the Yardlings could any manage a 1-0 halftime lead and a slim 2-0 advantage going into the final quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Booters Wrestle Brown to 2-2 Tie; Freshmen Outlast Exeter in Storm, 4-0 | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A slick package about being lonely and loveless in New York is directed by John Schlesinger in fashion-magazine style, but the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight gives the film a sense of poignancy and reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Military lore is replete with tales of slick operators who fast-talk their way past obtuse superiors, navigate bureaucratic absurdities and come out winners. Sergeant Bilko of TV and Milo Minderbinder of Catch-22 are winked at as engaging barracks rogues, and most Americans only chuckle when told, as one Pentagon official said last week, that "everyone has his own racket in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Military Mafia | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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