Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this a slip or is there really some subtle expressive quality in the shoulders of General Eisenhower? Does he talk with his shoulders as some people do with their hands, their eyes or even with their feet...
...Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked up 30 survivors, another six-apparently the only men saved from the Scharnhorst...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...
Whenever such a slip gets by the six or more people who work on each story in TIME-researcher, writer, senior editor, senior researcher, managing editor and copy reader-our 2,000,000-odd cover-to-cover readers let us know about it-fast...
Nobody wished Müller harm. Word had been passed that he was to be left to bumble. But last week there was a slip: Müller was shot down. As a British sergeant-pilot put it, "now some mug has pranged...