Word: slipperyness
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Dianne adjusts Bridey's costume, and then she and Bridey and Veva go under the trestle and climb a steep incline that is strewn with boulders. The footing is slippery; they go cautiously and emerge on a concrete platform that is five feet from the railroad tracks.
So goes the 1986 Crimson football season. The ball, so to speak, has bounced every which way away from Harvard. Or, more accurately, the ball has consistently bounced through Harvard's slippery hands.
And since they were urinating in the middle of a football field at the time, college were not pleased. The band was already on slippery ground, because it spelled out four-letter words in formation the week before.
However, while ascribing rights to a fetus may be a convenient way to argue for child support, Monson's case shows it to be a slippery slope toward granting the state an interest not only in the conduct of its citizens, but also in their bodies.
Numbers are slippery, partly because hobbyists who specialize, say, in the Revolutionary War have no reason to keep in close touch with Civil warriors. But some 50,000 people, many of them women and children, may be involved in relighting the old campfires and refighting the old battles. Some spend...