Word: slushing
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...Square, the snowfall was dying out and it was late, but it could have been the next day or forty years earlier for all we felt of time. The snow lay thick on the ground, although it was already melting. We had a drink, and slid in the slush, and threw a few snowballs. But our night would soon be morning, so we headed for home. The next day, I set back to work on papers and readings I had left undone, with one more daydream to distract...
...code of ethics. This would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
...code also rules out the apparently widespread practice of creating slush funds from unreported sources to meet various office expenses of members. However, it increases the personal expense allowance from $2,000 to $7,000 a year...
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...