Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just One Slip-Up. Last week the Bears came up against the Eastern champion New York Giants in the N.F.L. playoff. And-crunch-defense won again. Onto Chicago's Wrigley Field pranced the high-scoring (32 points per game) Giants, with wonderful Y. A. Tittle and his acrobatic receivers-Del Shofner, Frank Gifford, Aaron Thomas. There stood the glowering Bears, aching to cuff them around. At 7:22 of the first quarter, Tittle lofted his 37th touchdown pass of the year-a soft, 14-yd. beauty to Gifford. It was the only mistake the Bears made...
...house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need of a new slip...
When he was transferred back to Sofia, said the charges, Georgiev remained in the service of the imperialists. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while...
...border to Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She makes her way past bars and tacky tourist shops to the Municipal Palace, where she meets a Mexican lawyer by prearrangement, signs the great registration ledger of the clerk of the court, pays one dollar, and gets a slip of paper certifying that she is indeed...
...Second Continuation. The Rothschilds are a legend-and in recent times seemed destined to become a dead one. Hurt by high taxes and soft living, their between-wars generation failed to keep pace with modern banking methods, and the Rothschilds began to slip as effective powers in European banking. Today, the legend is very much alive-and being added to. Demonstrating the remarkable resiliency and power of survival that have enabled them to survive on their own family talent for two centuries, the Rothschilds are striking out in many new directions behind a silver curtain of discretion...