Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slip of a Miss. In Topeka, a gas-station manager who had to hire a girl attendant because of the manpower shortage had to fire her because of her blistering vocabulary...
...some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules of water evaporating from a puff of steam. At this point Astrophysicist Chandrasekhar's imagination, like that of most scientists, also relaxes...
...Commandos slip or bash their way inside the steel arc of Rundstedt's defenses to feel out German techniques. But old Rundstedt can tell himself that it has been an even trade. By their raiding, the British have had to give away their own techniques: how they carry tanks on barges, what kind of weapons they favor, what proportion of artillery they use. And the British can be sure that the Germans are profiting by what they learn...
...verdant slip off the old stock, the Prime Minister's youngest and favorite child walks like her father, talks like her father, thinks as she pleases. Thoughts...
...sure y'don't grab'm raound th'arms like this," the instructor drawled, "or'll slip aout a it. (Slip aout a' it, Lou.)" The silent flunky slipped out of it. Vag squared off with the little shrimp he had picked...