Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
...concluded Brownell, "the chief responsibility for securing fair and impartial trials cannot be shifted to the press. It must of necessity rest upon the members of the bar and other officers of the court. More than 20 years ago a writer on the subject said: 'Except for the slush and gush of the sob artists, there is very little offense chargeable against the press in which it is not led or abetted by lawyers, judges and other public officers...
Another memento came from Charles E. Wilson, when he was president of General Electric. Liz had left New York in dry weather for a tour of Schenectady plants, where she found ankle-deep slush. While sloshing around in open-toed shoes, she noticed Mr. Wilson whispering to his chauffeur, who returned a short time later with a shoe box which Wilson gravely presented to Liz. It contained a pair of rubbers. After that, whenever she phoned him, Mr. Wilson's sign-off to TIME Researcher Fremd was "Keep your feet...
...that will slide from the envelopes in Memorial hall this afternoon. For we are sure that the multi-colored cards will brazenly sport the word "spring" whether or not the unequivocal sign of the robin follows. We don't know whether our doubts are entirely due to the seasonal slush or the boredom of the examination period. Perhaps the scientists and the politicians should rightfully share part of the guilt. Every year now, we've felt that it's only through a chance combination of treaties, agreements, and nervous glances across barbed-wire border that we will see the next...
...selection of several state assembly speakers and the entire membership of the two legislative committees which concern him most. His efforts seem to have paid off: California has no state cigarette tax and no other state has a lower liquor or beer tax. Artie used his clients' slush funds, e.g., $150,000 a year from the brewers alone, for campaign advertising on behalf of his legislative candidates. Sometimes he backed two or more candidates in the same race just to make sure he was riding a winner...