Word: slush
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...buyers, sellers, porters and men whacking rusty knives into silver skin - is unforgiving. Boat crews crouch in patches of shade on deck, smoking and waiting for their wages. The boats' hulls, sloshing with bloody ice water, are almost empty, only a few shiny bellies lolling in the slush. Porters have already hoisted thousands of tuna onto their shoulders and carried them to the exporters; they swarm around the fat, fresh ones whose slick layer of slime still smells like the ocean, and whose scales gleam with a hint of the yellow flush they had when blood was pumping inside them...
...some alumni may harbor an inherent suspicion of supplementing a pool of unrestricted University money—a “slush fund,” as Mark A. Hissey ’84 called it in an interview this spring...
...Weather. Sucks. You need scarves, gloves, hats, and boots to enjoy snowball fights in the Yard. On many days, the wind rasps and howls, stopping you in your tracks on your way to a mug of hot chocolate in Annenberg. After the storm, Mass. Ave. becomes a moat of slush, the likes of which can only ever be seen on the ancient, misshapen streets of Cambridge. As the weather warms, the entire Yard sinks into a giant puddle of mud. Girls—unless you want to destroy every pair of shoes you own, bring a pair of galoshes...
Palin, just-plain-old-ordinary-citizen-after-Sunday Sarah • editor at Vanity Fair turns resignation speech of into actual English • formation of slush fund by may have violated ethics laws • hairdresser of suddenly starts tweeting about how full of lies the New York Times story about was - especially the part about the thinning hair of - a week after e-mailing the writer, "Thank you so much for the article!! It was perfect!" • less politically correct tweets are promised by • one last look at how nothing is ever the fault...
...Gabonese President held $130 million in the bank's personal accounts, money the Senate report said was "sourced in the public finances of Gabon." Earlier last decade, a French inquiry into the state-owned oil firm Elf-Aquitaine named Bongo as the beneficiary of millions of dollars in slush funds. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...