Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easiest and fastest way to get out of the smoke and the slush is by plane. From Logan airport passenger flights leave daily for most points in the United States and abroad, and the resident on Coral Gables or El Paso will find the service more economical even than coach travel. Christmas in London, Paris, or Rome--at the peak of the season--is easily within the grasp of any solvent passport-holder...
Socer in the snow, soccer in the slush perhaps, or soccer in the rain--soccer in near-freezing temperatures, at any rate, is the morning fare on the Business School Field...
...sunlessness of life in West Berlin is an observable thing. It is reflected in the headlines, telling of fresh furrows in the "dead zone" which the Reds are digging between their own sector of Berlin and Communist East Germany beyond. It shows in shabby gangs of unemployed who shovel slush out of ice-clogged streets-obviously refugees unused to manual labor...
...ride for thousands of miles in comfort. Sports-car fans scornfully dubbed such cars "jelly molds." Even non-sportsmen have more recently viewed them with alarm. Complained the Automobile Safety Association's President Arthur Stevens: the U.S. driver is "submerged down behind a chromium-draped engine hood, wide, slush-holding fenders, and a sloping, glass, mud-gathering shelf called a windshield, that at times even a Mixmaster couldn't clean." The American Automobile Association, noting the high costs of repairs, scored automakers for designs that "make it more necessary than ever before to replace large segments...
Even Massachusetts Avenue, the city's most excavated, rebuilt, and generally coddled thoroughfares, was for two days lined with heaps of slush. 'What's worse the snow ridges imprisoned veritable moats of water, making street crossing a challenge worthy of the Round Table's best effort...