Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Toreson, having killed the Nazi commander, escapes to England to lead back a Commando expedition, the mood of the picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...
...image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip stream kept me pinned to the tail fairly well, but I don't think I could have held on for more than 100 miles...
Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...
...Done It? may allow even the most thoroughly mesmerized Abbott & Costello subject to slip from his trance...
...nerve, or simply forgot. The irregularity of applicants in keeping appointments has so far caused the Boston Center to run an average of 200 pints behind the army-navy quota of 3000 pints a week. Appointments are still being made throughout the College in increasing numbers. But an appointment slip is not a pint of blood...