Word: slipperyness
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About-Face. It was a complete about-face, and heavyset, rasping Defense Attorney Arthur H. Dean did not let Kramer get away with it. Dean quoted chapter & verse from a Government statement of 14 months ago: "There will be no amendment to change our course of action . . ." The Government had...
Oil from overhead gravity tanks poured down in slippery streams on the tilted deck plates. Steam began to fail. The whine of the turbines diminished. Despite the struggles of the exhausted engineers, the generator failed, and with it power for lights and the laboring pumps.
Candidate for Honors. In Seattle, a driver explained to Police Captain R.W. Zottman why he had been driving at 60 m.p.h. on a slippery city street: "I was listening to a traffic safety radio program, and when the announcer asked, 'Will you be America's millionth traffic victim...
Even the least observant have noticed the deterioration of local thoroughfares. When holidays started, they were relatively clear; now they are coated with a most unpleasant layer of slippery material. The shortest reading period in the memory of most inhabitants does not add any discernible note of joy, either. It...
Road conditions were good yesterday, except in Eastern Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut where the driving was reported fairly slippery. Bus lines said buses from the West were on time and only 20 to 30 minutes late coming from the South.