Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Logic and politics seldom slip their feet between the same sheets...
...forces had orders to shoot at anything that moved-but in the tangled, rain-soaked forests of the Sierra Maestra it was hard to see anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them every strategic rock, gully and tall tree. He won the good will of mountain peasants by spending hours in conversation with them, paying them in cold Cuban cash...
Detroit Tintype. Faulkner's advice was as starkly frank as his methods. He cautioned one student writer not to slip into a grey flannel suit and measure out his life in installment plans. "Do you want a piece of tin from Detroit and a $30,000 pile of bricks in the suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with...
...many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they can be seen only through a magnifying glass. With a head painted on so small a scale, the painter was in major trouble if he made even a minor slip. Technically, the art demanded perfection...
...conditions of the People's Republic of Poland." Most juvenile prostitutes Lastik describes as the victims of "the prudishness of many persons emphasizing their 'socialism.' " He found that "over 80% of prostitutes were from working-class or peasant families which are pitiless for every moral slip. The unfortunate daughter is expelled from her home and her fellow workers turn against her." The syphilis rate is more than twice what it was in Poland three years ago, largely because "after the official statement that prostitution had been liquidated a number of venereal disease dispensaries closed down...