Word: slipperyness
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At 4:00 a.m. the cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not...
Most of all, it seemed to me that what should be learned from the incident, what certainly President Pusey didn't see, was that we had to have an appreciation of what the emotional stresses were on an adolescent in college today. What are they saying to us when they...
One of the biggest problems at the Winter Olympics is winter. At Grenoble last week, heavy snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery...
On the ground, work is frustrating for the 300 native laborers and their supervisors. Bulldozers slop through red clay so slippery that they have to winch their way downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete...
To handle the overflow from increasingly selective universities, the states have converted nearly every teachers college in the U.S. into a broader four-year liberal arts institution. The state-college system in California, with 18 campuses in operation and four more in the works, has 142,000 students, thus is...