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...also informed me of the things he had been hearing on the radio that day: "It's 25 today in Duluth, down 20 degrees from yesterday. That must be become that slime Nick Wurf rolled into town...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: My Dream Weekend In Duluth | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Downstairs, on the slime coated floor of the basement, one could find what was known to the administration...as a horror show. Mike Lempress had chugged his tenth straight beer and had some notion of breaking the all-time Dartmouth record of thirty-three. He failed, but not from want of trying...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: It Couldn't Happen Here | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...titrated Pepsi to find its acidity, and "made some big ugly organic molecule. I got yellow slime--it was somewhere between slime and sludge...

Author: By Andrew R. Elby, | Title: Freshman Takes Bronze in Chemistry Olympics | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

...LIKE "SLIME" and "grime," "sleaze" contains the sound of its meaning. Like "grease" and "squeeze," it's suggestive--onomatopoetic. Moreover, all of these are linked in another way--they have all come to have a political meaning...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: A Sleaze Overdose | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

...trash dumped daily. By picking through the pile for resalable bits of metal or plastic, they, hope to earn enough to survive. Says Pablo Téllez Falcón, 45, the chief of the dump: "They regard us as the shabby people who work in the slime with a bottle of tequila in the back pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pround Capital's Distress | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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