Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the camera suspended as though on an invisible shelf, Glenn went on with other work, then reached back and plucked the camera out of the air. Only once was there any difficulty. Preparing to change film, Glenn let the roll slip out of his fingers. He grabbed for it, but "instead of clamping onto it, I batted it and it went sailing off around behind the instrument panel, and that was the last...
Three in Nine. In World War II, Glenn flew 59 ground-support missions in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. After the war, he developed a cocksure method of demonstrating his flying skill. Says Marine Lieut. Colonel John Mason: "Johnny would fly up alongside you and slip his wing right under yours, then tap it gently against your wingtip. I've never seen such a smooth pilot...
Presumably, however, the Crimson will slip past Williams with an undefeated record intact. The varsity will at that point have but one match left, against Yale. This contest will be a thriller; regrettably, it is to be played in New Haven...
Melodious Schmalz. Kreisler's technique was sometimes shaky (he had an occasional tendency to slip off key), but the tone was always glowing, the rhythms dynamic, the conceptions full of grandeur. A cultivated man who spoke eight languages and had a scholar's grasp of history, philosophy and mathematics, he brought to every performance a warmth and simplicity that spoke straight through the mind to the heart...
...club, in serious financial trouble a year ago, anticipates that this year it will at best break even. The three-year-old American Express plan has yet to show a profit. Diners' Club, the granddaddy of the card clubs, watched profits from business with 1,200,000 cardholders slip 21% during the first half of the current fiscal year, under the pressure of increased competition and the recession. Disenchanted, after twelve years of catering exclusively to the credit demands of wining, dining and traveling Americans, Diners' Club last year bought an industrial finance company, is eying other credit...