Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which they snubbed to ice axes rammed into the snow. All afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live for another Sunday...
...came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business a bigger price tag with no package...
...advertising copy the article on Dr. Westrick isn't bad, but most papers give the current address of an out-of-town buyer when he hits New York. Somebody slip...
...Charles Dundas, the departing Governor of the Bahamas, who has now been named Governor of Uganda, British African protectorate, planned to slip away from Nassau this week before the Wind sors should arrive. London dispatches said that Sir Bede Clifford, who from 1932 to 1937 was a successful and popular Governor of the Bahamas, is about to be sent back to Nassau, reportedly to assist the Duke with his work as Governor...
...vertical shaft the blades on one side move backward while those on the other move forward. Propulsion is obtained by a rhythmical automatic shift in the pitch of the blades so that those moving backward push flatwise against the water, while those moving forward are "feathered" to slip sidewise through it with little resistance. One advantage of this arrangement is that quick stops and reverses can be accomplished without altering the speed or direction of the drive shaft-simply reversing the pitch of the blades. Professor Kirsten also claims that the feathering action of the blades stabilizes small craft...