Word: slipperyness
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It was a dark afternoon. A grey drizzle made the court slippery and the bad footing seemed to bother Crawford. It did not bother Vines. After a week of good but not brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive...
Means heard himself called a "slippery, slimy racketeer" in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, was found guilty of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in his fantastic plan to recover Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
Nast's battle with Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan...
"When my head came up, everything was black and I was being swept along, swirling and whirling about. I shouted and shouted. I grabbed at the sidewalls. They were slippery. I couldn't see them.