Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that sustains me. . . ." Screw-tape's last letter reads with the raging crankiness of a Browning monologue: "You have let a soul slip through your fingers. . . . The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theater, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses ... the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like...
...other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization must think in new terms -new terms as citizens, new terms as nations, new terms as a modern, remade world...
Despite his thoroughness, Schorr did not get through his farewell performance without a slip. The spear he carried fell apart in his hands several minutes before Melchior was to sever it with a blow of Siegfried's sword. But Friedrich Schorr overrode this mishap. Said he: "I am really very happy. I consider it a great blessing to be able to retire of my own accord...
...There is one thing I particularly stress, and it is the danger of speculating on future moves. . . . For example, when I was in Burma last year, I laid most careful plans for misleading the Japanese into thinking we would withdraw north towards Myitkyina, whereas it was my intention to slip away and across the Chindwin River at Kalewa, thereby extricating my force from an almost impossible position. . . . To my consternation, the night before we moved, it was given out on the air that 'the British forces are withdrawing to their base at Kalewa.' The result was that...
...them two days to return from furlough. When they met at the railhead "they were still congruous with civilian notions of tenderness . . . One could easily envisage the disentanglement of a sergeant's gear from feminine articles, helmet recovered from a web of stockings, rifle extracted from a flimsy slip." A few days of special training in friendly, sheltered coves, and then "the filing into craft by twilight, each man in his proper place and fighting order...