Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discovered digging with oldtime frenzy into his new job (as general manager of Oakland's swagger new Golden Gate Turf Club, readying its track for next month's opening) was trigger-tongued Edward ("Slip") Madigan. During his rip-roaring tenure as St. Mary's football coach (1921-39) he made himself as controversial a Bay Area figure as Harry Bridges, his Galloping Gaels famed as the nation's toughest, gaudiest, barnstormingest small-college team...
...cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...
...Also upset were Fordham (by St. Mary's, playing its first season without Slip Madigan as coach); University of Texas (by Rice); Holy Cross (by Brown). Still undefeated and leaders in the running for the mythical championship at the season's halfway mark were Michigan, Northwestern, Minnesota, Cornell, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College...
Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
...beams, useful magnifications have jumped to 100,000 diameters and more. Light is a train of waves; to pick some tiny body out of the unseen, the waves must find it big enough to get hold of. If the body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...