Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forty seconds later, Harvard defenseman Terry Flaman let the puck slip through his skates at the Cornell blue line and Lodboa and Bill Lewis came down the ice against defenseman Chris Gurry. Gurry blocked one pass, but not the second, and Lewis's hard shot trickled through Diercks's pads...
...secession], yes; question two [interim government], yes; is there a challenge to the ballot?' Then they would pass the ballot around the table to see if any one of these sort of professional ballot challengers wanted to challenge it. The way the ballot was printed, it had a perforated slip across the top in which the man would sign his name, which would be torn off to show that he had voted, and that went into the pile of receipts for the ballot, and then you voted on the perforation below and there was no way to identify which perforation...
...British-French supersonic Concorde 001 took its first trip last week, but the journey was only a matter of a mile at the Sud Aviation plant at Toulouse, France. With front wheels jacked up so that the 38-ft. tail structure could slip through the hangar doors, the graceful goose was towed to a suitable display area where this week some 800 airline officials and members of the press will get a look at the craft. If all goes according to plan, the 191-ft. prototype will take off on its maiden flight...
Only the matches of Fritz Hobbs and Fernando Gonzalez were cliffhangers. After jumping to a two game lead, Hobbs grew erratic and let the match slip to a 2-2 tie. But he blazed back in the fifth game to win, 15-7. Gonzalez, with the score tied 13-13 in the fifth game, smashed two deep court drives by his opponent, completing the sweep...
Confusion at Customs. To shopkeepers and tourists, the new morality means a mess at customs. Under the new rules, which require customs-slip proof that the purchase has been "exported," a buyer can get his discount fairly simply if he has his purchase shipped directly home. But if he wants to take the goods with him, he may have to pay the full price, later haggle with customs agents for a receipt to send back to the store, which, he hopes, will then forward the amount of the discount. On the other hand, a shopkeeper can risk giving the discount...