Word: slipperyness
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Laver was hardly a shoo-in. Driving rains interrupted play and turned the venerable club's tournament into a slippery game of chance. As Roche advanced toward the finals, Laver's luck looked even less assured. In matches earlier this year, Roche defeated Laver five out of seven...
Gordon Metcalf of Sears, Roebuck complains that retail-sales figures, which store chains use to plan inventories and sales-promotion policies, are especially slippery. "For instance," he says, "on April 11, retail sales for March were announced as $29.58 billion, a record and a substantial increase over February. On May...
Most authors approach the subject of France inductively, offering, like a Parisian épicerie, small, spicy dabs of this and that so that the whole, though piquant, is rarely filling. In one sense, Sanche de Gramont writes in the same vein. Tidbits of throwaway intelligence pop to the surface of...
Perhaps the most fascinating find, geologically, was the discovery of tiny beads or grains of glass in the lunar dust -which seemed to explain what Astronaut Buzz Aldrin meant when he described the lunar surface as slippery. Geologists tentatively ascribed the abundance of the glassy material to meteors. Because of...
There are no clues to what became of Crowhurst. It may have been suicide, an imprudent swim in shark-filled waters, or simply a misstep on a slippery deck. A number of friends in Teign-mouth, the town that helped sponsor his trip, hold out hope that he is still...