Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth floor of the State Department Building in Washington are ten coding and cable rooms, isolated from other offices by heavy wire screens. The guarded outside gates are locked; the heavy wire doors connecting the ten rooms inside are unlocked only to let employes and rare visitors slip from one room to another. Well within this labyrinth, in a small room under four yellow ceiling lights, sit the closemouthed, fast-moving, middle-aged men who operate the Morse key and teletype machines. Incoming messages are passed across the hall, decoded, routed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and his assistants...
Sirs: . . . TIME, justly proud of accuracy in all things, must expect to be called for its slips. Such a slip is TIME'S account of the death of Alberto Balderas in the Mexico City ring (TIME, Jan. 13). TIME states that Balderas, after having scored a triumph with his first bull, was killed by his second. . . . When Sidney Franklin was in town last week I asked him about this. Franklin had left Mexico City before the accident, but he had a letter from a trusted aficionado there, and this man's account ran as follows: Balderas had indeed...
...costumes ? from a trig purple suit to a sequined man-killer? that had Designer Hattie Carnegie's telephone ringing constantly on the morning after the opening. Once, in changing costumes, Gertie does the next thing to a striptease' exposing herself in a cobwebby black lace slip. Naturally in Lady in the Dark she has no understudy. The show business knows no one who could fill the bill...
...Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...
...aircraft began going downhill fast. I slid back the hood and began to get out, my goggles were shipped off and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream; I realized I hadn't undone my straps so I pulled out the retain ing pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the instrument panel or the stick, I don't know really...