Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This condition is primarily the result of war pressure, for there is such a tremendous turnover of cases that it is impossible to catch every error. Write-ups are usually read by members of the department and a special editing committee under Miss Norton, but some boners manager to slip through...
Strewn around one Italian tank were papers that belonged to Captain Aldo Corbelli. One was a month's pay slip for 3,630 lire. A handbill advertised the Italian edition of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. A letter from the captain's girl, Mardella, ended "I never stop longing for you." Aldo Corlelli's body lay in the tank...
...villagers of Vage, a tiny hamlet on the Norwegian coast. In the dark of a Sunday evening, Lunde, with his wife and a district party leader, arrived in Vage to take the little ferryboat that went across the fjord to Andalsnes. The chauffeur drove the limousine out on the slip, got out and strolled aboard the ferry. An instant later, slip and ferry parted. The car teetered, plunged into the icy water...
...Pilot scooped the world by casually breaking the news in a front-page interview with a home-town survivor of the lost carrier. The sailor was abruptly whisked away by Naval authorities. Elderly Pilot Editor Samuel E. Boys got a blistering Navy rebuke. Possibly Sam Boys's slip expedited Navy's official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after its loss) marked a new deal in Navy news. Bolstering that impression was the Navy...
Pink-cheeked Playwright Kenward has drifted about the West Coast for years, acting, teaching, directing. Visualizing women's role in modern war, he wrote Cry Havoc (the title comes from Julius Caesar: "Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!") nearly three years ago with a different setting, shelved it, rewrote it after Bataan...