Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British mines and the Ruhr, produce more steel in Germany, and generally bring the Continent back to economic health. But the crisis of August 1947 also proved that the U.S., which produces more goods than any other nation in the world, could not afford to let its friends slip into bankruptcy...
...heat in & around Hollywood was intense. At a recording session the slip-horn's balding Tommy Dorsey, 41, knocked the clarinet's balding Benny Goodman, 38, through the music stands. When Goodman arrived late on the job and tootled tootles that weren't in the script, Dorsey got his dander up. The standard Hollywood windmilling followed -and then the standard flubdub to the press. Goodman: "I was just sitting there playing my clarinet when I got hit." Dorsey: "I couldn't punch my way out of a paper...
...Assistant Secretary of State Garrison Norton and Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, last week published a 17-page report on U.S. aviation policy. The gist of it was that something would have to be done, and in a hurry, if U.S. air power is not to slip into impotence. The reason: the U.S. air industry, which has fallen rapidly to peacetime rags from wartime riches, is just about on the rocks...
Rita Hayworth was queen for a night in London. At the world premiere of her latest picture, Down to Earth, her adoring, howling subjects milled so thickly about the theater entrance that she had to slip in by the stage door. Her Ministers of Publicity then hustled her out front to meet some courtiers: Anthony Eden, who looked pleasantly unimpressed, and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who seemed to like what he saw. Then Rita was enthroned beside the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George VI, to watch the show...
...Sweden, the middies had shaken hands with spry old King Gustaf. They watched goggle-eyed on the beaches as buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling...