Word: slush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Wops? Too good for 'em?" As they neared her house, she knew better than to enter it. As the man spit out, "I'll bite your fuckin' tits off, cunt," she turned sharply and walked in the opposite direction for a quarter mile, in the rain and slush, until she felt safely out of range...
...Elected Prime Minister after the 1966 assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, Vorster held sway for 13 tumultuous years, his racist government increasingly opposed by riots at home and pressure from abroad. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1978 and left the presidency in 1979 after a scandal involving a government slush fund intended to improve South Africa's image...
...resolution is not the same one defeated by House and Senate last summer. In order to attract more votes, the sponsors amended the bill to call for negotiated arms reductions as well as a freeze. Still, Congressman Edward Markey insists that the pristine freeze has not been turned to slush. The new language is a matter of "semantics," says the Massachusetts Democrat. "It's just fiddling. It's not significant." In fact, the loosely worded compromise is a measure of how entirely symbolic the idea of a nuclear "freeze" has become...
...truly detest the snow. It's so dirty and cold," explained DeFailly as she treaded her way through the gray slush of Mass...
...Lumet has over-directed Mason's chorus of legal underlings, who smirk absurdly whenever he cooks up one of his nasty stratagems. What we are left to admire is fine, dark photography of the brown, guilt-stained marble in the gut of a Boston courthouse, and of Boston slush turning blue in whiter twilight; Warden's humane old counselor; and Newman. His voice has the breathy rasp of a drinker, his walk the uncertainty of a strong man going down. We see him playing pinball in a darkened bar, his shirt clean and his tie carefully knotted...