Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security Council, the figure who stood out was Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, the American permanent representative, our vigorous and formidable opponent. Fedorenko and others in our delegation referred to him as a "slick / Jew who could fool the devil himself." But while they disparaged him, they envied his talents...
...Tiger's head-'em-off at the pass strategy worked to perfection until the end of the second period. The visitors showed the game down enough to prevent the slick-skating Crimson from getting into its run and gun offense...
...most embarrassing top secrets, including dirty tricks directed against Australia's Labor government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established a lucrative trade in cocaine and heroin, living high on the profits and slick-talking his way past a judicial system as indulgent as his parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence and institutional incompetence! What an entrepreneurial scam...
...Slick-fielding second baseman Nellie Fox missed induction by the smallest margin in the history of Hall of Fame voting. Thirty eight other former players on the ballot also fell short of being named...
...must force ourselves to see beyond the slick Ivy League exterior of these corporations united against the cause of justice. Hopefully the strike will help expose some of the half-buried hypocrisies abounding in the capitals of higher learning, to wit New Haven, New York and Cambridge...