Word: slipstick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...handiwork, however, and such remarks to the valet's valet as "You 4-F" and by him as "Okay, toots, let's pitch," while all right in a modern show, spoil the comedy of the second and the delicate balance Miss Donnely has established between out-and-out slipstick and straight humor...