Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans, detained by the Russians, freed by the Norwegians and returned to Baltimore last week under its own flag...
Champion Hopper's book contains, in addition to lucid dope on openings, cross-board tactics, traps and end-game maneuvers, a chapter illustrating ten games in which experts lambaste dubs. Sympathetic post-mortems diagnose, slip by slip, just where the dubs let the experts bring on the two, three, and four-for-one Blitzkriegs that usually wind up such games. The particular Blitzkrieg Champion Hopper is scheming in the cut above is a six-for-two "in-and-out" shot...
...Navy in its problems. In particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should...
...overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
Death. Some 20 years ago, Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...