Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...A.N.C. gave the government until last Wednesday to outlaw the weapons. But De Klerk would not go beyond a meek compromise offer, allowing the weapons to be carried only on genuinely ceremonial occasions. Rather than let yet another deadline -- the third it has set in the past three weeks -- slide by, the A.N.C announced on Saturday that it would suspend talks with De Klerk on a new constitution until he made "progress" in meeting its demands. The A.N.C. will probably also boycott an all-party peace conference called by the government for this week, but De Klerk insisted he would...
...forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note the subservient posture of the squaw! And the phallic arrow on the ground, emblem of his lost though no doubt conventionally exaggerated potency! Eeew, gross! Next slide...
Maybe it's hearing the crack of a bat, or watching a runner round third and slide into home. Maybe it's the doffing of the hat at the solemn strains of our national anthem, or the mystiques of the seventh-inning stretch...
...with FAS after the building was designed and approved for construction. FAS or the College could have sent HRE back to the drafting table, but that would have meant a big fight, and since FAS wasn't sure at that point that it wanted the building, it let things slide...
...like Hann will get the picture. If we indicate in ordinary conversations--at parties, in dining halls, in classes--that such epithets are offensive, ridiculous and socially unacceptable, a stigma will become attached to the offenders, and the epithets will begin to disappear. If we indifferently let obnoxious comments slide by, however, we are acting as an accomplice to bigotry. It is our indifference that allows the discrimination to spread...