Word: slushed
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This is the time of year for slush, not only in the streets of Cambridge, but in the legislative chambers of the State House. As regular as the weather, and about as agreeable, are the bills to bar Communist teachers proposed by representative Charles Iannello and others...
...thing, the weather has been bad, i.e., good.* There was an acute snow shortage. Days of bright sunshine softened the ski runs. Slush filled Cortina's streets. Flags of competing nations hung limp in the warm air. As the bobsled run slowly spoiled in the heat, national arguments developed over who should get a chance to practice. Italian Alpine troops were standing by to cart snow from colder slopes...
...Island. This travesty on the real world made its debut in Santa Barbara several months ago, and MRAers' comings and goings stirred up tremendous ill-feeling here. They are a misguided group and certainly an irritating one. I was delighted that you placed your review of this incredible slush under "Organizations" and not "Religion." These people dream of substituting M.R.A. for religion whenever possible, and they woo the Catholic and Anglican clergy shamelessly...
...sound was, it was most consciously contrived. From Bing, of course, Frank borrowed the intense care for the lyrics, and a few of those bathtub sonorities the microphone takes so well. From Tommy Dorsey's trombone he learned to bend and smear his notes a little, and to slush-pump his rhythms in the long dull level places. From Billie Holliday he caught the trick of scooping his attacks, braking the orchestra, and of working the "hot acciaccatura"-the "N'awlins" grace note that most white singers flub...
...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...