Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fusion with the Communist Party was Italy's No. 1 Socialist, Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, elegant in dapper grey trousers and an ivory-toned monogrammed shirt. Cried he: "Any policy not based on unity of the working classes will gradually lead our country and our party to slip from a revolutionary position to that of mere reform. . . . We are today 700,000 Socialists. When we shall have united with the Communists and formed a new unified party, we must not, however, renounce our Socialism. . . . Perhaps two generations from now differences between Socialists and Communists will have disappeared...
This richer taste pleased his palate. In 1916 he won his U.S. Senate seat, but let California - and the Presidency - slip from Charles Evans Hughes to Woodrow Wilson, because the G.O.P. candidate snubbed him in the campaign. Wilson found him no friend. Hiram harangued the Senate until U.S. adherence to the League of Nations was dead. In 1920, Johnson stubbornly ignored G.O.P. demands that he be Harding's running mate, later sulked when Coolidge succeeded to the White House. Unpredictable as ever, he supported Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned against him for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, turned against Roosevelt...
Mohammed. "I stayed at the Waldorf, and we went to nightclubs, shows, on boat rides, and even to Coney Island. I loved every minute of it, and especially the times when we could slip away from the Prince's bodyguard. But as for romance, that's just plain silly. He was attracted to me because I can speak Arabic. . . ." The Prince, mindful of his one wife and six children in Saudi Arabia, said that he did not remember Mary Mohammed. He then departed for England and home...
Transport. The rail profits, which began to slip in 1943 when the roads moved into the excess-profits brackets, were still going slowly down. The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that in the first five months profits of all Class I roads were down to $439,677,038 from...
...resulting naval battle, Halsey was heartbroken when he had to leave two Jap battleships unsunk off Cape Engano, only to find that four others to the south had given him the slip. But he did not lose his temper for long. Bull Halsey is permanently mad only at the Japs...