Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncontested point: the Administration's civil rights bill had made a highly technical reference to a law of Reconstruction days that seemed to empower the President to use troops to enforce the law (a right he has, anyway). So forcefully had Russell's forces broadened this indelicate slip into a virtual rape of the South that everybody agreed it would be a good thing to vote it out of the bill-to "clarify the atmosphere," as Knowland put it. The atmosphere was clarified by a vote of 90 to 0. But so, to Lyndon Johnson, was the fact...
Soon he could not only reel off the names of the Presidents in order and without a slip, but he also mastered their dates, parties, terms, major accomplishments. When he got better, his parents took him driving around the Jersey countryside. One day in nearby Elberon (pop. 985), the Frankels came across a wooden sign in the window of an old private garage, bearing the crude message...
...climb the trees. Because he is a poor shot, he misses the chickens that might save him. The cross on a Philippine church draws him into a deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort to slip through the American lines fails, and the weakened Tamura senses the first intimations of madness. He also becomes increasingly aware of the temptation to eat the flesh of the occasional Japanese corpses he finds everywhere, some of them already stripped by others. When finally he attempts to hack off some...
...earliest airplane designers knew that air turbulence was their enemy, tried to build wings that would slip through the air as smoothly as fish drift through water. They always failed. As the air flowed over the wing, it broke into curling eddies that dragged at the plane and drank up the engine's power. In theory, the scientists knew that this "burble" effect could be prevented by sucking into the wing a thin layer of air, and with it the incipient eddies. The remaining air would glide past the whole wing in smooth "laminar flow" (see diagram...
...world was dedicated last week in Washington, D.C., and the President of the U.S. took his shoes off for the occasion. There had been considerable nervousness over how President Eisenhower would observe the Moslem custom of removing shoes on entering a mosque. Grey cotton slippers had been prepared to slip over his shoes, but Ike decided to go all the way, shed his new black oxfords before he put on the slippers; Mamie took off her white pumps and stood in her nylons. Then they stepped across the threshold on to a carpet sent to the Washington mosque...