Word: slipperyness
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“There were concerns expressed about the slippery slope,” he said.
Yao Ming might have chosen to tolerate and downplay O’Neal’s taunts to avoid stirring controversy as he adapts to a new environment in America. However, as students at Harvard, we cannot allow O’Neal’s affront to remain unanswered. Regardless...
At Najaf, base of the 1991 Shia rebellion, a woman laughs as I struggle with my slippery hijab, then helps tie the scarf that covers my hair. Is she scared of war, I ask, miming planes and bombs. She shrugged and pointed to the sky. God will decide. Then she...
And yet Schmidt has what the rest of us have learned to call "issues." His wife, with whom he has settled into a life of hostile boredom, dies suddenly. She leaves him the house trailer in which they planned to embrace a footloose life and evidence that she once had...
Sept. 11 has most of all changed our feelings about disaster. We have a national security warning system now, a sort of mute, color-coded air raid siren, to further undermine our sense of security. And this formal ordering of fear has been supplemented by slippery rumors of attacks. My...