Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worldly Brendan Bracken, who impressed his listeners by his knowledge of what not to say as well as by what he said, made one tactless slip. Calling onetime No. 2 Nazi Rudolf Hess "a perfect nitwit," he added that he was "an overgrown Boy Scout." Boy Scouts did not like that, and British Boy Scouts formally told...
...Drapery, upholstery fabrics (simulating velvet, plush, mohair), shower curtains, slip covers, window screens...
Working by touch in the dark waters of the slip, so filthy that light could not penetrate, divers had cleared the wreckage of the fire (Feb. 9, 1942), plugged and patched hundreds of openings. The superstructure had been trimmed clean to the promenade deck. Since the ship lay on her side, stagings had to be built for the divers and the workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel...
Even when floated free, she cannot be righted quickly. Held at an angle of about 45 degrees, she is to be pulled into the middle of the slip by beach gear-great cables and winches whose function is not to lift but to harness side movement. Finally pumped dry, the Lafayette will still heel over until tons of bulkheading and refuse are removed...
This was beamed to England in English five times on Sunday and Monday. It was not heard again. Franklin Roosevelt saw to that. Neither he nor the State Department, nor OWI's overseas chief, Robert Sherwood, had authorized such statements, which were hereby repudiated. Said Sherwood: "Regrettable slip." John Durfee, who turned out to be an imaginary character dreamed up by OWI, promptly disappeared from the airways. (Left were at least four other ghosts, including "Military Expert Walter Herrick," which OWI has found convenient for expressing semiofficial opinion...