Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court said these men had wasted corporate assets, mainly in transactions involving General Motors Management Corp., which administered G.M.'s famed profit-sharing bonus plan. Back in 1931, some of them had participated or acquiesced in an unauthorized distribution of stock. Another 1931 slip-up was the inclusion in the bonus rate of $10,057,559 profit on the sale of G.M. treasury stock to the Management Corp. Net earnings were improperly boosted from treasury stock transactions in other years...
...short, U.S. women, by the million, have renounced skirts in favor of slacks. They are also renouncing less visible femininities: panties, brassières, slips, and even bloomers and petticoats. They have taken to chemises-not the kind that served as slipcovers under corsets-but a combination one-piece garment combining built-in bra, streamlined shorts, slip-like middles...
Once, putting to sea at dusk, they were spotted by a German priest; soon afterward, signal fires bloomed on the hills around them. Several times they fled from islands when reports were relayed that a Jap destroyer was approaching. They gave it the slip, only to be followed by another enemy ship. Quick dodges through small islands saved them. Their luck held as they scooted past Jap bombing bases. Darkness saved them from an auxiliary cruiser...
Fort Dix's nearness to New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas encourages departing soldiers to telephone last goodbys to friends and families. Some of them undoubtedly let slip the place and time of their departure. Last week Dix's public phone booths bore a terse legend: "Temporarily out of order, by order...
...Blue publicity department, after many weeks of sore perplexity, devised felt-lined metal jackets bearing the legend BLUE to slip over NBC microphones when photographers are in the offing. New mikes, made of war-precious metals...