Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not inadvertently slip into the same condition internally as the one which we fight externally. Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in the people, and, if given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring before them the real facts...
They were so horribly bloated and discolored that even their race was indeterminate but the uniform was that of our own men. When we tried to take hold of their arms and legs and lift them up and over into the boat, the skin would slip away in our hands. One of our boys was sick from the odor...
...hope this moratorium will enable us to handle renewal orders from TIME'S old friends promptly and without a slip-and that it will make it possible for us to continue entering subscriptions for our overseas forces as fast as we get them...
...Nazi planes were shot down, in another five of an estimated 100 (only a half dozen reached London). This brought to about 75 German losses in a fortnight-some 7% of the attacking forces. Damage and casualties were still closely guarded secrets, but Home Secretary Herbert Morrison let slip that one of the "episodes" (presumably the previous week) had been "as bad as the worst single incident" of the 1940-41 blitz...
...room' a U.S. Army officer tackled Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...