Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretariat, as a routine matter, sends transcripts of addresses to the speakers for correction. In the past several weeks the Russian delegation has been going through these verbatim reports with great care. Wherever a Soviet speaker has made a slip of the tongue and referred to "President Truman," the thoroughgoing Russians change it to just "Truman...
...marriage, founded on a slip of the pen, somehow survives years & years of dull quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...
Only once did Pat O'Brien let his real suffering slip past his lips: "Science is wonderful . . . but I sometimes envy my ancestors who died too early to know how painfully life can be prolonged." Last week, at 59, Pat O'Brien's pain ended...
...doing the Sophie Gimbel cover story (TIME, Sept. 15) on women's fashions and the New Look. As far as the three of them were concerned, the showing went off without a hitch-except for a passing remark by Boyd that one of the elegantly organized models' slip was showing. It turned out that it was a lace-trimmed petticoat-and it was supposed to show...
...starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...