Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried by 14,705-to-6,783. The majority was 2,000 less than Thorez had hoped...
...there had been one fatal slip. Guard Miller had managed to throw away the key to the yard door. When the convicts realized this Cretzer babbled: "Well, that does it up. San Francisco is just as far away." With one pistol, one rifle, and less than 50 rounds of ammunition, Coy and his desperate men settled down to holding off the besiegers...
...M.R.P. and the Right were not persuaded. The final vote was tense and tight. President Gouin cast a white cardboard ballot, meaning yes. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. followed with a blue slip, meaning no. When all the tallies were in, the Communist-Socialist combine had won, 309 to 249. The proposed Constitution for the Fourth Republic went to the French people for approval or rejection...
...president's message brought to completion a cycle started three months ago when the Council, fearful lest the tutorial program slip quietly and completely out of the College scene, began to question Faculty men about reasons for various departments' cutting of tutorial below the maximum allowed in the Faculty vote of December 4 (the vote Mustied tutorial to Junior and Senior honors candidates and qualified Sophomores...
...spring training's halfway point, most of the wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base...