Word: slipperyness
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Cadet James Reid Brazell, 17, said, "Thanks to TIME, I won all the arguments I got into." Others said: "TIME certainly did a job on bureaucracy. That story about slippery floors in the Pentagon was a lulu." "Congress didn't get anything important done-a do-nothing Congress." "That...
Commando Tactics. But there, anticlimactically, Maurice Tobin dropped the subject. He scrupulously avoided mentioning Joe McCarthy by name. He barely skirted the real case against McCarthyism-the technique of innuendo and slippery half-truths that deliberately confuses ends and means. And, with his glancing blow, he gave McCarthy's...
"McCarthyism" is not going to be stopped by Truman speeches or by the witch-hunting of witch-hunters, or by proving that McCarthy is a slippery character and no gentleman. "McCarthyism" is going to be around until Harry Truman, the President of the U.S., eliminates from U.S. foreign policy the...
This device, designed to "determine the coefficient of friction which is an index of relative slipperiness," was delivered to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management survey team. The team surveyed. After weeks came a report. Freely translated from the Pentagonese, it said: the floors aren't too...
In Major Byron, N.Y.U.'s Professor Ehrsam has done the best job of literary detective work on the forger in print. He is himself sadly handicapped because: 1) the slippery major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings...