Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S apologies to Major Harken for an embarrassing slip...
Driven by land-and-belly hunger, Haitians often slip across the boundary of the Dominican Republic, whose dictator is "Generalissimo" Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In 1937, Trujillo's army massacred thousands of Haitian settlers, burned their bodies or tossed them into common graves...
...optimist of the week is Ned Bailey who now has a pigskin folder engraved in gold with words "Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Navy." Of course, the little slip of paper to fill the folder is still missing; and Ned hastens to explain that he's not really eager to leave "The Bog" or Boston for home but semper paratus...
...Daily News and PM covered their entire front page with a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt. Before midnight, the New York Times hit the streets with five full pages on Roosevelt's career which had been set up in type in advance. Many U.S. newspapers were similarly forearmed, and slip-ups were few. But on Hearst's San Antonio Light, a Mexican copy boy who could not read English clipped the news flash off the teletype and hung it on a hook at the news desk, where it lay unnoticed for 20 minutes. The news hit the Oklahoma City...
...opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could slip past the soldiers, they could sell the stiffened slime, crude opium gum, to gun-toting dealers. The rewards were great; and it was certainly easier than raising tomatoes, which spoiled on the burros' backs on the long trails to market...