Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local churches held mixed parties for them. The white children had been well coached on interracial manners. When one let slip the word "nigger" her sister snapped: "Now you stop that! You know what Ma said about saying words like that...
...just like his daddy-in fact, be another Orson Welles." Orson told her he wanted 17 children, but she said: "You know Orson-he always has to exaggerate a little. Three or four would be enough for me." To admirers in the 362nd Fighter Squadron Rita sent an autographed slip...
...should be settled not by the U.S., but by Germany's victims in Europe. Later a neutralized and demilitarized Germany may find her place in the Atlantic Community, but "only with the sincere consent of the Soviet Union." If, on the other hand, Lippmann warns, Germany should ever slip into the Russian Orbit, Russia would have expanded to the shores of the Atlantic. "This solution would be intolerable for the Western World...
...street stores held only a yawning clerk and a clutter of rummage-sale merchandise. Now: In Chicago a stripteaser is a regular customer of one of the infant Welfare Shops. Weary of material-scrimping war models, she is in the market for glittering sequin evening gowns "that I can slip out of easily." Practically any old phonograph record will sell, and dresses with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people...
...blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that U.S. investors have no faith in the peace. But now, day after day, "peace" stocks charged ahead, while "war" stocks lagged...