Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the rest of Cannery Row is given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there...
While the infantry and artillery still painfully dragged themselves and their weapons through the mud, the rain lifted, and clearing skies over the Philippines again hummed with the angry sounds of air war. In one day the Japs tried to slip nearly 50 planes over U.S. installations on Leyte. P-38 pilots had a field day knocking down 35 of them; ack-ack did for seven more...
That was a slip. The chaplain was mentally thumbing the rule books as he repeated, dubiously, "Shot them, eh?" The private first class quickly amended...
...plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare...
...hours, 12,800 passed the lines; in 36 hours, more than 17,000. But there were more thousands to go; a four-hour extension was granted. A score of German soldiers who had no stomach for the last-ditch stand Hitler had ordered tried to slip through, dressed in civilian clothes, but they were stopped...