Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's worth wet feet? Consider the price of a play this weekend: waterlogged Wallabies, slush-flooded socks, or klunking around in cast-iron boots so clumsy you wouldn't consider putting them on your pet cow. If you had a pet cow. Never mind escapism, or entertainment, or culture, or any of the other reasons the parts of you from the ankles up may have used to justify play-going in the past. The relevant fact this week is feet. Anything that's going to require a journey on the T. or extra slogging through the Cambridge glop...
...slush and water should freeze tonight as temperatures drop into the mid 20s, a National Weather Service statement said...
...slush and water created a nuisance for pedestrians. One sophomore entering the Yard through a flooded archway on Massachusetts Avenue said, "You really have to pick and choose where you walk...
...case, staged a three-day orgy at the TraveLodge in downtown San Antonio, where some Bell women employees became party girls Ashley also accused the company of giving top executives a $1,000 raise on the understanding that it was to be donated in $50 installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...
...bunting into an air-conditioned, mirrored tack room. As butlers proffered champagne from silver trays, Madden screened footage of his past turf champions. Tom Gentry, the showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back with too much sway, undersized hindquarters, oversized hocks. No frills, just...