Word: slipperyness
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Both kinds of readers will find plenty to delight them in The Night Manager. For starters, there is the title character, who is (as usual) a slippery outsider, a "refined impostor" in search of a conscience (or a mission at least), and like nearly all Le Carre protagonists, half German...
In Wasinger's opinion, Wilson is just another campus gov jock waiting for the 2030 presidential race: "Harry Wilson has already started making out Christmas cards for his campaign. He is a smooth operator, very slippery."
Perennial polo powerhouse Slippery Rock, which boasts the strongest program in the East and is ranked third in the nation, won the title.
"Those are the lucky ones," Russell said. But not all older Cantabrigians can escape from the slippery sleet-crusted streets of Cambridge to more welcoming winter climates.
Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system...