Word: slipperyness
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The Warning Whistle. The new ICC proposal is unlikely to get to Congress before next year, and when it does, the rails are apt to prove slippery. Already the warning whistle was blowing on Capitol Hill. Cried Ohio's Democratic Senator Frank Lausche: "Sweat on, you taxpayers. Let Congress...
The combination of mogul geology and sun chemistry make a mediocre skier without edge control into a magician. The hill becomes a slippery sandbox of rhythm in the frosty intensity of late winter afternoon. But crossed tips can make a four-stitch salad out of a novice leg. The end...
The slippery white hills to the North invite a weekend escape from Cambridge. For a veteran skibum: memories of smell, of triply brilliant sun, of hills of sheer hair, of uncontrolled speed, clouded goggles, broken straps, sore ankles.
Shut-Eye. If they are not, they should be. Pro basketball bristles with violence. Falling players leave slippery smears of sweat on the floor that have to be mopped up with towels. Trainers use freezing sprays of ethyl chloride to relieve the pain of a sprain-and keep the man...
Crowds of four to five hundred braved the 15 degree whether as they swarmed around the fire area. Footing as slippery and treacherous with ice forming quickly on the street. At one point in the morning the crowd was doused jets of water when firemen fought the blaze from inside...