Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that for the first time since 1920 the Republican convention was wide open. Most agreed that Candidate Dewey was likely to lose strength after the first ballot, Candidate Taft to gain. Candidate Willkie would have his chance, if his chance came at all, as these two leaders began to slip. A few there were who believed that if the convention went beyond six ballots, each dark horse in the field looked as good as well-paced leaders. Because of the slow gearing of the convention program* many a watcher felt that dark horses carried a heavy handicap...
...protect surface ships. (Admiral Stark told a House committee: ". . . Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
...Samuel Reshevsky, for the third consecutive time: the biennial tournament for the American Chess championship; in Manhattan; after an aside to a friend, acknowledging his opponent Reuben Fine's opportunity to win in the next few moves. Fine let the chance slip, the game was drawn, all Reshevsky needed, with his half-point lead, to keep the championship...
Unexpected was the first slip's message: aging (70), sentimental Pierre Samuel du Pont, who was seated at the head of the long, oval, mahogany table, had resigned as chairman of the board. Granddaddy of the Du Pont clan, he had been with the company for almost 50 years, starting as a chemist, moving from the presidency to the chairmanship in 1919. He was ready to retire to his enormous hothouses at Longwood Gardens, where he plucks orchids and figs, to sit in the evening on his broad plaza and watch his $500,000 fountain swish and spurt...
Startling too was the secretary's next slip announcing the resignation of Brother Irénée, vice chairman. Seventh Du Pont to have the job, he had taken over the presidency from Brother Pierre, had been vice chairman since...