Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commuters waded through kneehigh slush and the less graceful slipped on ice, life at Harvard went on a little wetter than usual yesterday...
Bright yellow foul-weather gear and gum-soled shoes were common sights in Harvard Yard. Many students reported difficulty in walking in the slush...
...even slush could possibly curb...
Fish scales are at their best in loose snow and slush but are slightly less effective in their glide. Also, in hard-frozen crusty snow a slight--and extremely obnoxious--buzzing sound is created. If, however, you are one of those who have avoided central heating all these years as "unnatural," then you will also reject these recent attempts to make life easier and insist on waxing your skis...
Sakers and Slush Lamps. Atmosphere is another Sabatini attraction. From a mind crammed with historical minutiae he fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout...