Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tears to the eyes and a lump to the studio. That family band is somethin', but that grandpa -he's somethin' else. Matter of fact, he's Walter Brennan and that means his creaky voice is goin' to turn all s's to slush. "Be sheein' ya shometime," he threatens. If it's in this kind of shtuff, nineteen-sheventy-eight would be too shoon...
Dirksen's assault on the ethics package was all too successful. Clark and Case narrowly passed another amen ment restricting the use of Senate "slush funds," only to have it overturned next day by a substitute, sponsored by Tex as' Ralph Yarborough, giving sanction to the practice of accepting contributions to run Senators' offices - the sort of practice that Illinois' Charles Percy abandoned last fall because of unfavor able publicity...
From their balconies and windows high in Warsaw's party headquarters, top-rank Communist officials stared grimly down on Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...cheer in Michigan's Terry McDermott, ten pounds heavier and four years older (at 27) than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that the sun had turned into slush, Terry surprised the experts again by finishing second in the 500-meter-barely .2 sec. behind West Germany's Erhard Keller...
Long's bill is not merely superfluous; it is dangerous. Giving money to the national committee would immeasurably increase party power at the national level; the bill would, as Senator Gore has pointed out, create national political party slush funds that committees could use to help state and local candidates of their choice. Critics have been so loud and insistent on this point that Long has proposed, in a "perfecting amendment," that the money go directly to a presidential candidate, instead of to his party's national committee. To prevent the nominees from using the money to buy local candidates...