Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British blockade at one time-jammed her holds. The refugees knew that the British Navy's destroyers patrolled the coast; but perhaps they hoped that the presence of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) would embarrass the British sufficiently to let the Exodus slip...
Actually, Weld isn't entirely uninhabited. Between 160 and 180 per day slip in unobtrusively to work out singly or under Haines' direction. The genial lightweight crew coach estimates that 60 percent are in the graduate schools...
...immediate announcement, the young couple were condemned to even more secrecy. Gossip columnists searched in vain for signs of them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that...
Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
...H.A.A.'s biggest handicaps last fall was an insufficient number of trained personnel to handle the rush business that preceded a big game. And no announcement has been made of a contemplated increase in the office staff. Before each game the H.A.A, will have to exchange the application slip of each student for a ticket, plus handling turn-ins and requests for extra seats. It is easy to imagine that it will be doing a land office business. Unless there is a large staff on hand, the Quincy Street Emporium may be faced with the same un-ending lines that...