Word: slink
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Each year a large number of hopeful and sly students slink into the Hygiene Building on Holyoke Street with requests to be excused from exams because of various serious diseases. In the past such students have not received much help from the Department, which has been rather successful in separating the real sicknesses from the assumed...
...Those who are sly try to slink behind honor, calling on wisdom to fight for deceit...
...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...
...uprising and downfall alike, Coriolanus (Erford Gage) commands admiration. The fickle, "garlic-eating'' mob is brought on largely to be sneered at; the wily tribunes of the people slink about as if they expected hisses. All this is faithful to Shakespeare's intentions; but, whatever Shakespeare's sympathies, it is no wronged hero he portrays-Coriolanus is a flawed, fissured, overpassionate man whose intemperate actions are his undoing...
...only thing she can cook worth a darn is slaw with bacon grease on it, and they tell me that's fairly simple. Her kind of car driving makes Tulsa mothers keep their children in, and pedestrians slink up back alleys. She can't sew very well...