Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the rest of Harvard was sliding in the slush, unpacking frisbees, or still choosing courses in anticipation of spring, the tennis team performed its own ritual as it opened its season at the University of Wisconsin in the Men's Intercollegiate Tennis tournament...
...HAVE BEEN no sweat off the backs of Harvard students to trudge through the slush-swept streets of Cambridge to their review sections and exams during the worst of the recent spate of bad weather. But the fact that their destinations were being staffed by a near-full complement of Harvard employees was evidence of both the workers' dedication, and some unwise judgments on the part of the University...
...pair of prankish collegians. The only laws they are unable to flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party at the offices of the firm that fired Dick, for only then can they get at a huge slush fund that rests in the safe of Dick's ex-boss (played by TV's Ed McMahon...
...Avon Ladies," as they are known in the trade, who have struck the richest vein. In 1971 Editor Nancy Coffey of Hearst's Avon Books found in her "slush pile" of unsolicited manuscripts an interminable 800-page tome about love in the midst of the American Revolution by a 35-year-old New Jersey housewife named Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. Published in 1972 as The Flame and the Flower, it has sold an astounding 2,348,000 copies -more than enough to convince Avon executives that millions of women readers were yearning for "frequent long vacations from the 20th century...
Although several buildings had flooded basements and rooms because of cracks in windows and doors, Lee said the problem was not very serious. He said his workers spent yesterday removing slush and they may have to apply salt and sand today if freezing occurs, as expected...