Word: slipperyness
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U.S. Prosecutor William Power Maloney and the Federal grand jury, who began to investigate Editor Griffin last fall, found him a slippery quarry. When they tried to subpoena back numbers of the Enquirer, Griffin said that he kept none. Last week, when Prosecutor Maloney sent officers with a warrant for...
Under extremely wet and slippery conditions the first three events of the intramural track meet were run off yesterday, with Sophomores taking all three firsts.
Just Deserts. By this time Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, commanding the Caribbean Defense, decided to crack down. He made an inspection flight over the northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the...
But newsmen knew that another prospect was not so pleasant. The whole military philosophy of fighting the slippery, lightly equipped Jap had to be rewritten. And Uncle Joe had all the notes for the new text, if only he could make other soldiers listen.
"This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and...