Word: slushing
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...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...
...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...
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...