Word: slushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
...members before it was booted out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1957 for corruption. Thus, despite four years of trying to organize anything that walks or moves on wheels,* Jimmy Hoffa has actually had a net loss of 84,000 potential contributors to his million-dollar slush funds...
...York police, the line of people waiting to get into the Music Hall is one of the phenomena of modern show business. Extra long now in the tourist summer (70% out-of-towners), it is something to see in the winter as well, knee-deep in slush and ready for Donner Pass. The Music Hall somehow signifies to the rest of the nation the epicenter of Manhattan show business. Most of the standees agree with the one who said he was there because "everybody down home just knows about it" and the chap six laps behind him who shrugged...
...first was adding room for several hundred people to existing Houses: cheaper than a tenth House, this maneuver would also mean a little less expansion. The Masters were generally ready to accept additions in return for certain kinds of slush--redecorated Common Rooms, altered suites, and the like. But the proposal had little real appeal, and fell through when it was clearly rejected as an alternate to a new House...
...wise parent, and at the same time began pepping up his campaign with vicious personal attacks on Quadros. He called Quadros everything from insane to dictatorial, said that Quadros' election would lead to bloody civil war, charged that Quadros was trying to buy the election with a slush fund provided by foreign trusts...