Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was no respite for either side, for the Red Command would not willingly let initiative slip away, would not willingly lose the momentum of a great drive...
...chilly night last February a French submarine from Algiers sneaked through the Mediterranean, surfaced in Corsica's Ajaccio harbor long enough to let Captain Colonna d'Istria, young scion of an old Corsican family, slip ashore...
...hitters are ... up and the bases are full, so the [Allied] pitchers will have to make sure they don't make a single slip. No matter what anyone says, the fact remains that the American people as a whole are not expecting a long war. Well, it is going to be a long game-in fact, so long that you'll have to take a rain check...
...grader may slip yours...
...dramatic crisis develops when another house guest, pro-Nazi Rumanian Count Teck de Brancovis (George Coulouris), discovers that Muller is about to slip back to Germany with money for the anti-Fascist cause, tries to blackmail him. Muller shoots the count, bids his wife & children farewell, leaves for Europe on what looks like a one-way trip...