Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little by little labor gangs have been reduced in ranks as young men and old slipped away to join the guerrillas. There are many thousands in the hills now. Not all of them are armed, because arms are hard to come by. There are some women among them-the famed Amazons who fought so valiantly during the Crete battle. They are not fighting-yet. The guerrillas maintain steady communication with the Greek mainland and with the Mideast by couriers who slip...
This situation was soon remedied by an officer who improvised a pay chit out of an old envelope. With this slip in hand, the half-pint "officer" waited his turn in line and then strode up and presented it to an amazed disbursing officer...
Johnny's out of jail: Your slip is showing...
...slip of excitement caused by the visit of Major General Sherman Miles gradually died away this week, in the gleam of waxed floors and polished brass doorknobs remained in the rooms of Leverett House to meet the color inspections of the company commander...
...embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce. But the fun all remains well within Hays office limits and thrives on the milk-fed energy of its participants...