Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around $60. In the past, fingers fumbled to thread film along sprockets and through take-up spools. To remedy the situation, Kodak two years ago brought out its line of Instamatic cameras that featured instant-loading Kodak cartridges in a new size, slightly smaller than the traditional 35 mm. Slip the cartridge into the camera and presto-you are ready to shoot. Not to be outdone, West Germany's Agfa came up with Rapid cartridges, which use the regular 35-mm., but thread automatically into a receiving cassette, require no rewinding when the roll is exposed. Other domestic...
...Admissions Committee doesn't turn people down simply because their grades 'slip just a shade,'" Glimp said. He emphasized that grades are only one of several considerations which the committee evaluates...
...networks criss-crunched into a near dead heat in the Nielsen ratings. CBS and NBC scored an identical 19.4% (of TV homes with their sets tuned in during an average minute), and ABC was only a whisker off the pace with a 19.3%. Everyone went crazy. CBS-TV was slipping, and the slip eventually led to the fall of its king, James Aubrey. On the other hand, it also meant that perennially third ABC was on the rise, and so over there, there was much patting of backs. No one thought much about NBC. Except, apparently, the viewers. Last week...
...spokesman for the Jubilee Committee said that Murray almost won on the basis of an unexpected flood of write in votes. Voters were asked to name the contestant best embodying the spirit of Miss Seeia, a young lady who was pictured, wearing a slip, in the Radcliffe Freshman Register...
...falsification, he never contents himself with their ready answers. "They've got journalistic maidenheads hanging in their offices. They like to ladle out the news. They can give the impression of a denial without the reality. But the more you make a liar talk, the more he's gonna slip up." And so he digs...