Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...telephone call at 6 a.m. one Sunday with the news that a black male assistant superintendent has murdered a white female director of program evaluation and committed suicide. The police are at your house by 7 a.m., and the media are about to spread like an oil slick all over this one. What...
...Russian proverb, it should be: When skating on thin ice, move quickly. Like Gail Sheehy, who has learned some fast footwork and slick maneuvers during her career as a New Journalist and pop psychologist. Her biography of the Soviet leader marks Sheehy's debut as a pop political scientist...
While Dixon said she expected the people of Washington to be wary of her changes, she said that voters perceived the sincereity behind her position, which was meant "not to be politically slick, but...to serve," she said...
...figures for the country, often cite the numbers for the two parts of Korea combined. In the 1,100-seat auditorium of the Children's Palace, a 500-room extravaganza rich with 2 1/2- ton chandeliers and 50,000 tons of marble, groups of tiny revolutionaries put on a slick hour-long variety show, compulsively smiling while they deliver folk songs like Korea...
...murder of an unfaithful lover, flapper Roxie Hart (Christine Kienzle) is tossed into a women's prison run by the lusty lesbian, Mama Morton (Lenore Jones). If she can just convince her dim-witted husband Amos (Tym Tombar) to raise the five-thousand dollars necessary to hire slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Todd Forman), Roxie may escape with her life. But she's got competition for newspaper headlines and public sympathy from equally celebrated murderess Velma Kelly (Vonnie Roemer). Which one will get the not-guilty verdict first...