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...winter used a snowmaking machine similar to those found at ski resorts. Instead of making actual snow, however, he adjusted the machine's nozzle to spray out a substance that was roughly the consistency of wet sherbet, which was squirted into the hole. The water part of the slush drained to the bottom, leaving ice granules above. A system of pipes and pumps drew off the ice water from the bottom of the pond, and it was recirculated by other pipes and pumps back to the snowmaker. The water was then sprayed out onto the pile all over again...
...myself... I have not carried away milk from the mouths of children" and so on) and concludes in an ecstasy of self-exoneration: "I am pure. I am pure." During the 1952 campaign, when he was running for Vice President, Nixon was accused of having an improper $18,000 slush fund set up for him by California businessmen. Eisenhower thought seriously of throwing Nixon off the ticket. Nixon responded with the masterfully corny Checkers speech, in which he pharaonically denied wrongdoing and told the nation about his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" and his daughters...
...novelists like Janet Dailey (80 million copies of 57 novels in print) produce eight books a year for a six-figure income. Experience is not necessary. Bestselling Writers Kathleen Wood-iwiss (The Flame and the Flower) and Jude Deveraux (The Velvet Promise) were dis covered in the "slush pile"- the trade term for unsolicited manuscripts...
After 23 years on the Faculty, Thomas F. Pettigrew, former professor of Psychology and Social Relations, decided last June he was tired of disputing with his Harvard colleagues and of slogging through the mud and slush of Cambridge...
Admittedly, there were obvious holes in the Crimson's roster. "We just weren't deep enough in potential," coach Bill McCurdy said. "We had no slush fund," he added...