Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack": a number of submarines attack the center of a convoy, preferably at night, loose torpedoes in every direction, slip away at top surface speed. (In a wolf-pack attack the Reuben James was sunk...
Northbridge Rectory, the latest Thirkell, reports Barsetshire during the Battle of Britain. Its large cast of small-town Britons is so very whimsical, lovable and British that they constantly threaten to slip into vaudeville (but never quite do). Nothing in particular happens to any of them. But the day-to-day record of their semi-humorous plane-watchings, their quiet contempt for "our little friend with the moustache," their unruffled adjustments to blackouts, to ill-mannered evacuees, to billeted officers, to shoddy goods "which, if we describe them as Empire, will be sufficiently described," to food shortages and to death...
Sleeper's Slip. In Memphis, a sleeping fireman woke to an alarm, jumped to the slide-pole, dropped like a plummet, broke his legs. Both his arms had gone to sleep...
...farm towns, there would be programs at the community churches, with youngsters reciting while mothers prompted from the front pews, or pageants of boys in the turbans and robes of the Three Wise Men and girls with the gauze wings of angels. Midway through the evening a man would slip quietly away from his seat, and at the end a pillow-fat Santa Claus would suddenly appear, lugging a sack of oranges and candy...
...Slip. In Idabel, Okla., a court clerk reading a verdict condemning a man to death in the electric chair was interrupted by cries from the jury box. The jurors had signed the wrong verdict blank; they meant 25 years for manslaughter...