Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago dedicated himself to "the light side of life" knows that the dark side has a way of encroaching, even on post-hippie millionaires like himself. He has worked hard to fix a once broken marriage. He watched his father slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed...
Basking in the soft glow of my slowly discovered comfort and confidence, it would be easy to slip back and believe that I Have Arrived and that I have now learned almost everything I will ever need to know in order to survive...
...screaming, "He's got a gun!" and dropped to the floor, grabbing children, rolling behind columns, trying to get smaller. Weston came to a door marked PRIVATE: DO NOT ENTER. It was the back door to House majority whip Tom DeLay's suite, the door staff members use to slip in and out of the warren of offices...
...Come fall, Mike McCurry will finally get to slip out the side door after three years of keeping scandal-hounds and Republicans at bay. He's been wanting to leave for a while. "The Lewinsky scandal held him hostage," says Tumulty, "and if it wasn't still hot these days, he'd be out the door tomorrow." As it is, McCurry will spend the next few months preparing his well-regarded protege, deputy press secretary Joe Lockhart, in the fine art of keeping mud off a troubled President -- without getting too much of it on yourself...
...good measure of how the country feels about the Sex Scandal of the Century that Monica Lewinsky can slip in and out of Washington almost unnoticed these days. Ever since she dumped her self-promoting lawyer, who seemed to escort her around town in part to stay in the pictures, she has traveled incognito, and even spent the occasional quiet weekend in New York City. She still puts her telephone through daily workouts, calling her attorneys and advisers around the clock, and she's taken up knitting to distract herself from the endless talk shows about her case. Last week...