Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor when a black submarine slides in past the green flatlands, past Ford Island and the gaunt wreckage of the Oklahoma and warps into a slip at the Submarine Base. On her conning tower is painted the score of her cruise: a column of rising suns. A Navy band tootles a greeting. Lashed to her periscope is a broom, symbol of a clean sweep in enemy waters...
...black ship is in Pearl Harbor for censored days. One day she is moored at the slip, her deck littered with broken boxes of fruit brought aboard at the moment of her arrival, her crew sprawled around reading mail from home-"sugar reports"-which is priority business. Then she is off again for the Empire...
Britain's Problems. Economically, Britain is a factory. Under war controls its efficiency has improved enormously. Britain's problem is to slip into peace without sacrificing this wartime efficiency. Only so, if at all, can returning veterans avoid the dole; only so can at least some of $2,600 million of war-built, publicly owned factories be put into peacetime production; only so can the Beveridge plan become much more than dream security...
...knobs until he sees what he is looking for, insert a slim, sterilized needle straight to an embedded bullet or shell fragment. Later the metal can be removed cleanly without extra probing and blood loss, simply by following the needle. In fracture cases, the surgeon can watch the bones slip into place, make sure they are in perfect position...
...justice in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler were by no means isolated. The German press and radio are reporting a half-dozen or more such cases each day, to let the population know how badly some Germans are behaving, how ruthlessly the regime is punishing the slightest slip in wartime discipline. But to the rest of the world, this policy of revelation is a significant squiggle on the German fever chart, a new piece of evidence that Germany is weakening-militarily, politically, psychologically...