Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including the Robert Kennedys, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, there was "puckish horseplay" as the mourners recoiled from shock. Everyone knew that Ethel Kennedy often wore a wig; during the meal, it was "snatched off and passed from head to head, winding up . . .on the slick pate of the Secretary of Defense...
August as Usual. The first dire predictions that the oil would pollute England's beaches for ten or 15 years were soon proved wrong. By week's end, while huge pools of slick remained offshore in a calm sea-thus remaining vulnerable to continued attack by detergents-the defenders had managed to keep sufficiently ahead of the incoming oil to clear most of the beaches. Prime Minister Wilson insisted that all the beaches and the sea would be clear by summer, urged vacationers not to cancel their plans. To illustrate his faith in his own prediction, he announced...
...year-old mop man wears new Texas Wranglers beneath a soiled white apron, and the cook's slick black hair doesn't quite hide his bald spot. Blitman orders a Fried Egg Special. Two eggs over, hashed browns, one tough English muffin, a packet of marmalade, and regular coffee. Fifty-five cents. Joe Blitman has done Harvard on five dollars a day. The mop man sneezes into his shirt sleeve...
...phantom of the night she was. All dressed in black. She done come in through the back window slick as you please with this big pile of papers. I says "Can I help you, Miss?" and she takes out this long knife and threatens molest me if I don't let her run the presses. She had me strip naked and watch her as she printed up this book of hers. I read it myself later. It's only my opinion but it didn't seem like much to me. Our next door neighbors are far more interesting, nights. Even...
...governments have suspended their talks until the airlines reach agreement. At that point, U.S. officials will be mired deep in an even stickier problem. The Saigon government is also demanding - incredibly-payments of premiums (in all probability fat landing fees) by Military Airlift Command contract carriers such as Slick, Continental and World Airways, hauling war cargoes and personnel. It goes without saying that U.S. officials feel that a Flying Tiger CL-44 carrying military cargo should no more have to pay a landing fee to Saigon than an F-4 Phantom returning from an air strike against the Viet Cong...