Word: slipperyness
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A 50-m.p.h. gale is blowing in a blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about...
This drop can be--and is--explained away by a variety of reasons. There has been an overall drop in graduate school applications; minority students are turning to the professional schools; minority candidates are simply not applying anywhere. These defenses against charges of racism are supported by masses of slippery...
He was nowhere in the house, or out in the garden or in the tiny woods alongside us. I climbed to the top of the house and out onto the widows' walk. The house is built into a cliff and it dominates the town: We can see for miles around...
It's no easy problem, this trouble of hers. As a woman, handicapped by the lack of a female literary tradition, by an infant history of female role models, she lacks secure self-definition. "Femininity," she finds, cripples the personality, yet in rebelling against it, she has no other solid...
Summers, the castanas and other barrels are left out to catch the rain and the burros dot the countryside only once or twice a month when the rain fails to come. Then the man of the house guides them in case they fall under the weight of their load as...