We curse the empty reservoir of washer fluid in the rush hour traffic over freshly salted slush. |
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They were the perfect armor for stepping off a school bus into a half-frozen puddle of gray slush. |
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The next snowfall was half-hearted, the brief shower of semi-liquid slush spattering on the windowpanes and freezing when night came again. |
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The slush pile consumes a lot of resources inside a small publishing company. |
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The muckiness is intensified on warmer days when the snow and ice melts into a brown slush. |
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I have to admit that my own seven volume, 3,000 page magnum opus is still mouldering in the slush piles of various publishers in London. |
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Where water from fire hoses or water main leaks had come in contact with this substance, it created small pools that resembled slush. |
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Then, as the murky water recedes, it leaves behind slush and debris that could take weeks to be cleared. |
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I'm upset that I scrubbed the kitchen floor Saturday and today it has been slopped with snow, slush and salt. |
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I remembered the look on Jim's face as he slopped through the slush in Rye, mulling young John's fate. |
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He stood up too and they walked out, their boots crunching though the thin layer of slush and snow covering the ground. |
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In April the snow started melting, and in May there was rain and slush, the snow disappeared and there were glimpses of sun. |
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There are times an aircraft and crew will get stuck at a location because the snow and ice become slush, making take-off impossible. |
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It comprised long, daily walks through snow and slush to the county Library, where I worked on a manuscript to keep my mind occupied. |
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Then, in a flurry of snow and slush, the Christmas holiday was over, and the long drive toward Boston had begun. |
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Fess waded through the ankle-deep coating of snow and slush around the 18-wheeler. |
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Indeed, consider how many drivers on our roads today have any experience of driving in snow, slush and frost? |
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I had never ventured to the south, so that is the way most of us went, trudging through the snow and slush on the ground. |
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With the Lower East Side ankle deep in snow and slush, our vehicle sits safe and sound, parked streetside a few blocks over on Norfolk Street. |
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His novel was plucked from the obscurity of the slush pile by the wife of his agent Luigi Bonomi. |
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In this story a bird is sent down to earth to dry out some of the mud in the primordial slush so that islands can be formed for the Ainu. |
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Rubble and slush from potholes and mud dumped recklessly by the cable companies and various civic agencies have only added to citizens' woes. |
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Soth shivered at the cold mixture of mud and slush and jumped up on the bench. |
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Young New Zealanders waded, often wounded, among mud, slush, rubble and the dead, searching for a way to end their war. |
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Every season brings in different surprises but the most disgusting to the garage is that which carries with it rain, mud, slush and grime. |
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Mud, debris and knee-high slush from landslides blocked roads, cutting off many remote villages. |
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He kicked the back flaps of his coat, a bit of slush staining the underside, but he didn't care, he needed to hurry. |
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Three hundred and sixty-five days, come rain or shine, through muck and slush, I never missed a day, sir. |
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The best of the slush is undoubtedly both lyrically rueful and melodically engaging. |
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People who think that this ending is purely sentimental slush should give it another try. |
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He was a key player in a very big political machine and he was managing a slush fund. |
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The government has been accused of setting up a political slush fund at the expense of communities in need in Kerry and elsewhere. |
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Surely, this is a clear warning of the resumption of the infamous slush fund returning to State House! |
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It's good to know our money is not merely disappearing into a slush fund somewhere. |
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He had this idea of the Social Entrepreneur Fund, which turned into a slush fund for all sorts of mad schemes. |
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We have heard all the intellectual debate from the over-endowed academia and those who live off the slush fund. |
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I feel very guilty about it, because I'm a fiction writer and I've been sending to slush piles for years. |
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One point to note is that every writer, and every novel, is at some point in someone's slush pile. |
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The term ' slush pile ' gives a clear flavour of the contempt in which unsolicited submissions are held. |
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His job is to work through the slush pile of unpublishable books, sending out rejection letters to disappointed would-be authors. |
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Their writing seems like random samplings from the slush pile at a third-rate college newspaper. |
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These unsolicited submissions are known in the book trade, throughout the English-speaking world, as the slush pile. |
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After blotting excess solution from the carbon side of the grids, they were immediately vitrified in ethane slush. |
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The snow had turned to slush in the streets that were buzzing with the usual activities. |
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But all this variety and good looks wouldn't amount to a hill of slush without some solid control. |
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I assume that nebulous economic term indicates it's some form of slush fund for the pollies to spend at their discretion. |
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Suddenly, with a sickening slush and smell, the contents came free, sliding to the ground with a dull flop. |
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It is feared that it would only serve as another slush fund for corrupt government officials and politicians. |
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A horse stood near the corpse, as did some cows and sheep, but there were no human footmarks leading through the slush towards it. |
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As the slush moves into a flatter, slower moving portion of the stream, the frazil will accumulate under the ice cover. |
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Shells fell everywhere, bursting along the embankment, splashing them with frozen slush. |
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Lightweight rubber boots and galoshes are manufactured using a process called slush molding. |
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Opposition figures have suggested that the money was either part of a government slush fund or evidence of illegal enrichment on her part. |
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I simply say that, surely, no board can operate with a slush fund. |
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A snowstorm dominated the news and led to hundreds of people taking time off work or booking into hotels rather than donning their boots to stride through the slush. |
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It was pitch black, with snow and slush dotting the cobblestone paths. |
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We've got a couple more books in the works that are from the slush pile. |
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Several pieces of galvanise sheets were strewn along the shore as the battered boats, some of which were overturned, sat atop piles of debris and slush. |
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Without a floor mat, snow and slush can soak into your carpet, through the carpet padding, and you will hardly notice that it already caused your floor pans to get rusty. |
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I brushed away snow and slush and raised the prize to eye-level. |
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We do not have a slush fund with which to buy a whole lot of property. |
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Use caution in taxiing retractable-gear aircraft through slush or mud. |
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The board, which previously was under the control of the Ministry of Economic Reforms, has functioned as a slush fund for dispensing political favours. |
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Well, we don't do mud, we just make them crawl around in the dust and grime on the ground from the mud left over or the snow slush left over or whatever. |
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Today, extracting cash from homes has become a great hidden slush fund supporting current levels of consumer spending and, therefore, the American economy generally. |
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The hems of the dress that I wore dragged along the slush of mud on the ground and my sleeves snagged against the branches that had been stripped of its leaves. |
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This vote is not supposed to be a slush fund for all and sundry. |
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Now we learn that there have been little or no improvements to an EU-wide budget that appears to be operated like a slush fund for pet political projects. |
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Where is the incentive for institutions to adhere to the rules if they know that a slush fund exists, which will grow bigger each year, to bail them out if they go under? |
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Wes observed as they tracked through mud and what remained of the slush. |
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These days, you have to be very good indeed, or very lucky, to be pulled out of the mountainous slush piles on the desks of children's publishers. |
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Rachel is becoming a rebel who increasingly sounds like a voice from the slush pile of chick lit, moaning about the passing of her childbearing years. |
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It establishes a slush fund to hand out goodies to people who can swank around producing programmes at a cost far in excess of normal commercial rates. |
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It always moves me and makes me feel better about life and is the perfect antidote to all the ersatz sentiment that sprays over us like noxious slush at Christmas time. |
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We have surely assembled enough evidence about the slush pile. |
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A Buddhist priest walks knee deep in slush among buildings that have uprooted like trees. |
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Congress felt that they were being used as slush funds to allow senior management to loot the firm. |
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It is the freshest evidence that hyperpartisan super-PAC slush funds are now a core part of the permanent campaign. |
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For the first time in what seemed like years I heard actual rain drumming against the roof and washing snow from the streets and reducing drifts to icy piles of dirty slush. |
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Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom. |
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The main reason slush drinks stay semi-liquid is their high sugar content. |
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Because you've phoned to say something about a submission, someone may write down your name and the title of your book, and pass the note on to the slush readers. |
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Scalise spoke about taxes and government slush funds for a mere 15 minutes, Knight said. |
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And he is more than matched by Williams's calculated turn as the cold-hearted killer, in a role which marks a welcome break away from the sentimental slush of recent projects. |
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Rain pounded the streets, turning the snow into muddy slush. |
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Yes, the holiday season is here complete with kiddie fodder that is virtually unwatchable for anyone over the age of 10 and mawkish slush about the joy of the family. |
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That afternoon the sidewalks were awash with slush and half-melted snow. |
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But it is not compulsory to submit anything to a slush pile. |
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While USAID turned into a slush fund for dobson, Powell remained the good soldier, loyal to White House orders. |
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Wherever possible, stocks tested were slush pulps before and after blending, after chemical addition, thin stock and wirewater. |
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Like the Reagan era Iran-Contra dealings, governments want to use drug money worldwide as slush funds for their agendas. |
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Two consultants have been charged with evading some 1 billion yen in taxes on income that included slush funds funneled by Kajima Corp. |
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A fatal accident inquiry later blamed a buildup of slush in the aircraft's engines before the crash. |
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The DFB rejected the allegations, saying there were no slush funds or cash-for-votes. |
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It was the first day of hearings of the commission formed by the Abbott Government to probe alleged union slush funds set up over 20 years ago. |
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Its two top officials have resigned, amid allegations of bullying and secret slush funds containing millions. |
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At the bottom of snow cover a slush layer may form and further transform into snow-ice. |
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And it became a slush fund for those beloved social programs. |
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By using slush with the cryogen cooled to the triple point instead of the boiling point continuousboil-off losses can be avoided. |
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An intern had fished it out of the slush pile and handed it to Linville. |
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I needed to write a book, which would leap out from the slush pile. |
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Germany's highest appeals court ruled yesterday that corporate slush funds used to win contracts are illegal and that staff who use them can be convicted of breach of trust. |
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It will inquire into the activities relating to slush funds and other similar funds and entities established by, or related to, the affairs of these organisations. |
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Like The Lovely Bones, it's pretty miserable prettified slush. |
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Space projects in India and slush funds in Africa must take second place to preparing these islands from the dramatic climate changes we are enduring. |
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