Word: slipperyness
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Of course, Kissinger argued that Atherton had gone further than the Secretary had wanted him to. At week's end, Atherton was given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times...
Though Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water...
American politicians are traditionally hard, aggressive, artful, imprecise--to put it midly--in the use of words and accustomed to the uses, acquisition and trading of power. Intellectuals, on the other hand, have a long-range view of things, see many sides to many questions, are diffuse of purpose and...
* Sliding down banisters. (A friend of mine tells me that the two best in the University are in Sever and in Med School Building A. There isn't actually too much real exercise involved in this, but these banisters are so slippery that the experience is bound to bring on...
"I was terrible," Handy said yesterday, "I didn't watch the ball and I didn't move a lot because the floor was so slippery."