Word: slipstick
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...Brainerd Holmes. Ambitious workers−from hard-hat musclemen to round-shouldered slipstick artists were already clamoring to work under the Brooklyn-born straw boss...
...still the ultimate argument of the diplomat; the conduct of war is still the business of the soldier. But in the nervous decades of nuclear adventure, the infinite implications of armed combat have made a military authority of the scholar. It is the scientist with his slipstick who measures the effects of untried weapons in future battles. It is the professor at the blackboard who defines the dilemmas that complicate each new scheme for building a practical deterrent. One acknowledged dean of this new breed of cold-war scholars is Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger. 37. Director of Harvard...
...near by); Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford manned the five wire-association tickers in his stocking feet. Press Aide Pierre Salinger, Chief Adviser Ted Sorensen, Scheduling Coordinator Kenny O'Donnell, Top Organizer Larry O'Brien and Pollster Lou Harris (working feverishly with past election records and a slipstick) analyzed reports from far-flung observers-90 appointed assistants in key precincts all over the nation-who phoned in their findings direct. Bobby kept in touch with Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson in Washington over a direct telephone line. He had another private line to Jack...
...talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick...
...Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick. At Los Alamos he proved that he could direct experimental physics. And he had the capacity to make prima donnas pull together, and ordinary people work like the devil. He worked like the devil himself-sometimes as much as 20 hours a day. A six-footer, he shrank...