Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sammartino and Agustín Rodríguez Araya, previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to Uruguay (TIME, Oct. 10). While police searched 64 public establishments and private homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported that he was keeping under cover there to avoid embarrassing the Uruguayan government...
...nine months of 1949, U.S. Steel netted $133 million, 50% more than in the same period in 1948. And so far as Ben Fairless could see last week, the future looked rosy. Operations of Big Steel, he said, should continue at 100% of capacity for another six months, then slip off to perhaps 85%. To some it looked suspiciously as if Big Steel, trying hard to make up the profits lost during the strike, was raising prices temporarily because of the strong demand resulting from the month-long stoppage...
...Houghton has been non-existent in spite of the apparent temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only...
...since the battered Third Reich had surrendered to the overwhelming might of the U.S. and its Allies. A new regime, already endowed with many of the powers of a respected, sovereign nation, was rising from Germany's ruins. The Western world, led by the U.S., was about to slip the shackles off defeated Germany; it would try to guide the country which had been both monster and genius, insane destroyer and industrious creator, to a place among the free nations...
...rugged (252 lbs.) lad from Turtle Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though it were a sweepstakes winner, let out a happy bellow: "Hart!" Leon could sit back and watch the bids come...