Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats exchanged bitter words over the implications of the Watergate investigation. Without challenging a single point of reported fact, the President's men denied any wrongdoing and attacked the press for printing the stories. Even so, there were new revelations of White House connections with a fat slush fund used to finance political spying...
...Checkers Speech" of 1952 is the most striking visual episode, delivered in response to reports of a secret Nixon slush-fund. The candidate makes no response to the charges, tries to account for his income and in what Darryl Zanuck reportedly called "the best performance I've ever seen," alleges that the only gift he's accepted is a cocker spaniel puppy for his daughters. "Regardless of what they say about it," he says, "we are going to keep...
...Stravinsky pieces (problems which were evident in most of the orchestra's playing); the "Fireworks" in particular included some ambiguous string playing and a weak transition back to the fast material. The Ravel Pavane, however, was well played in a manner that was impressionistically hazy without degenerating into slush, despite some over-subdivided retenus on the part of Moshell. Cyrus Stewart's delicate phrasing of the horn solo was especially praiseworthy...
...Christian Biton (Jean-Claude) runs a ski shop in Switzerland. He and his buddies have a pretty good thing going, selling equipment and eyeballing the snow bunnies who fall by with enviable frequency. "I have very strong thighs," says one in a voice that could turn hard pack to slush. Smirks one of the shop boys: "Maybe you'd like to feel my pectorals some time...
...slate gray. Snow, which had fallen a few nights before, had turned to slush. About 50 people, some with small children, waited patiently for more than an hour in front of a former supermarket at 23rd and Madison in Seattle's shabby central area. When the doors opened at 10 a.m., the people entered quickly and filled shopping carts with free surplus food-dry beans, scrambled-egg mix and a score of other items. Hundreds of other Seattle residents followed, collecting an allotment of 40 Ibs. per person. In less than a week, workers at the store distributed...