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RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber, and the GLCM (glickum) and SLCM (slickum), the ground-and sea-launched versions of the same weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arms and the Talks: A Glossary | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...first a concession to sartorial splendor. That stubble had to go. And he wasn't the bald-headed eagle. A little slickum, a little polish, smooth out a few of those wrinkles, he'd been letting himself get seedy lately. Look old, feel old. Now to get rid of that . . . . . . pot belly. There must be something to do about that. Some steam and a quick rubdown. Not too much; there was a beautiful day to be lived outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Day on the Town . . . | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

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