Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of white Americans are sick and tired of seeing mobs of troublemakers, malcontents and beatniks parade the streets. Irresponsible students (out for kicks, some interracial sex and "unholy discontent"), slick politicians, and a few left-wing labor leaders are hardly representative of the public. Priests, nuns, ministers and rabbis have no right to run down South to turn a horrible mockery of law and order into a religious crusade...
...American women took to thermals for other reasons. "I love that oldfashioned, hand-knit look," said one New York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...
...here comes summer. Compulsive skiing, like any other addiction, has withdrawal symptoms. Lenny is driven down below the retreating snow line to scrounge a living however he can: below 5,000 ft., after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality, for what goes this time is the sure novelistic cure for male cynicism-a pretty girl. Bright, earnest and conveniently voluptuous, she is upset because her father, a U.S. diplomat, is so absolutely sweet and wonderful but a hopeless drunk. She is further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally...
Yale's attack is centered around their slick, high-scoring backcourt combination of Bob Trupin and Herb Broadfoot. The Elis have a slight height advantage over the Crimson, with a front line of 6-5 Tom McCaffrey, 6-4 Rick Johnson, and 6-5 Don Taylor...
...though expected for some time, caused an uproar. The London Daily Express called it "an outrageous interference with the rights we enjoy, nothing less than a sinister erosion of freedom in Britain." Many Britons simply regretted the demise of the slick cigarette commercials, many of which draw more rave notices than the regular programs. The sell is soft and jingles are out, but the British are attracted by the scenes of mountain streams, horse country and fast sports cars...