Word: slush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn't look long. I lit out for the cellar...
...last summer Norman Dodd, research director for the House Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, labelled the Fund for the Republic as "a huge slush fund for a full-scale war on all organizations and individuals who have ever exposed and fought Communists...
...forward and read Malenkov's resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat in the U.S. with the news...
...wrong, and the Children's Theatre production of Mario Siletti's adaptation does not. With Barbara Bisco in the lead backed by an energetic cast, jolly costuming, and a musical score by Charles Gross, the show provides an hour of bright relaxation in the middle of the February slush...
...small band of Yugoslavs splashed grimly through the slush of Masaryk Street one morning last week to Belgrade's old Circuit Court Building. A waiting crowd of about 100 students set up a derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer...