Word: slush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alleged misdeeds center on a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund operated by the Department of Information when Mulder was Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. According to Mostert's report, some of the funds, intended for a covert campaign to secure favorable coverage for South African policies in the foreign and domestic press, were diverted to dubious business ventures and the personal pleasures of departmental officials. The main schemers were identified as the brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively...
...credit rating, will vote on whether to require the legislature to set aside 5% of each year's tax revenues for a reserve against debt. Proponents call the reserve, which would amount to about $63 million this year, a rainy-day fund, while opponents regard it as a slush fund that could be used by spendthrift legislators to underwrite pork-barrel public works projects. The proposition's chances are rated as a tossup...
...highway patrol car in which Finch was riding bumped a black youth on a motorcycle, and the police report was buried until Minor received one of the dozen or so tips he gets each day. The Finch administration has been the target of Minor's reports of slush funds and campaign contributions from out-of-state engineers. Several advertisers boycott the Reporter, including Mississippi Power and Light; the paper accused its president and other company officials of entertaining two members of the state public service commission on a duck-hunting trip...
...have run in three inches of snow and slush going the last six miles with frozen feet," he says. "I've also run when it was 90 degrees out. Then they used to weigh us before and after the race. I started at 130 pounds and finished at 119. My wife wouldn't go out with me because people thought she starved me, he said, smiling...
...same kind of exploitation suffered in the pits by their fathers and grandfathers. Dressed in blue jeans and plaid wool shirts, many of the miners spend lots of time these days in the Cabin Creek Coffee House. It is a warm and welcome refuge from the coal-dust-blackened slush outside and the dispiriting sight of the empty coal hoppers-as idle as the miners-on the railroad tracks across the road. The men pass the hours playing pool, drinking RC Cola and strong black coffee (35? a cup with a refill on the house) and talking about hunting, fishing...