Word: slip-up
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...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...court said these men had wasted corporate assets, mainly in transactions involving General Motors Management Corp., which administered G.M.'s famed profit-sharing bonus plan. Back in 1931, some of them had participated or acquiesced in an unauthorized distribution of stock. Another 1931 slip-up was the inclusion in the bonus rate of $10,057,559 profit on the sale of G.M. treasury stock to the Management Corp. Net earnings were improperly boosted from treasury stock transactions in other years...
Execution. How elastic was the German plan of invasion, how alert and audacious its execution, was seen when the campaign's only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more Nazi troops landed in Oslo Fjord by ship for two and one-half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports...
...overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
...game was probably Captain Phillip's last in organized baseball, and he acquitted himself proudly, accepting every chance to squabble with the umpire without a slip...