Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
...there was one slip 'twixt the Lip and his cuppa. In the fourth round, his left eye nearly closed, blood dribbling down his cheek, Cooper lurched around the ring-swinging blindly, charging his tormentor like a maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually eluding Cooper's rushes, sticking his chin out, daring Cooper to hit him. Then it happened. "Clay is down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land...
Montana is the nation's fourth biggest state in size, but it has so few people (five per square mile) that its population could slip into Dallas with room to spare. Yet it supports six campuses: Montana State University at Missoula, Montana State College at Bozeman, a school of mines at Butte, teachers' colleges at Dillon, Havre and Billings. Montana's whole budget for higher education is less than the budget at Princeton-which is not surprising in a state where per capita income ($1,963) has risen less than 11% in a decade...
...have to wrestle with each other but also face such competitors as General Electric. General Motors and IBM. In 1950, Du-Pont had one competitor in polyethylene resins; today it has 16-which is one reason why its basic prices have melted 12% since 1954 and its profits will slip a bit this year even though sales will...
...Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps to take charge after dark. In the rugged north, it is a mountain war, in which the Reds are short of food, medicine, weapons, and largely on the defensive; in the south, it is a battle for the nation's rice granary, where the guerrillas have cunningly...