Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspapers carrying stories about the Harvard sex scandal are now lining garbage cans throughout the country, and soon the affair will slip quietly from the public consciousness. But the discussion engendered in the CRIMSON and elsewhere has revealed an important deficiency in University policy on the sexual problems and social development of the average Harvard student...
There had been some inklings of a coup, including rumors that generals had begun moving troops loyal to Diem away from the capital. New York Times Correspondent David Halberstam and another correspondent received a slip of paper the night before with the message: "Please buy me one bottle of whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...Beach. The raiders were armed with two .30-cal. machine guns on each of the launches, and the Rex was loaded for bear: a 75-mm. cannon, two 57-mm. and five twin 20-mm. cannon. In seven months, continued Castro, the Rex has carried out ten missions to slip arms and men into Cuba-"and it is not the only boat that...
...Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal...