Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper. No telltale stamp marred the passports. Now the Mexicans stamp passports "Salio a Cuba" in bold letters. But, of course, passports can be conveniently "lost." destroying the evidence...
...letting 5 goals slip by him against the lowly Rangers, Canadiens' goalie Jacques Plante eliminated himself from the race for the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the netminder playing the most games for the team allowing the fewest goals. Instead, Glenn Hall of the Hawks won the honor for the first time in his career with an average of 2.54 goals scored against him per game...
Then things changed a bit. Not until December was there another strangling-and this time it was a 19-year-old, Sophie Clark, a student in medical technology, who was found strangled with three stockings intertwined with a half slip. Next, on Dec. 29, was Secretary Patricia Bissette, 23, with three stockings and a white blouse knotted around her neck...
None of them need have worried. Britain's workers, it turned out, did not cotton to the idea of receiving a mere slip of paper for a week's hard work. The worker must ask in writing to be paid by check before his little brown envelope can be discontinued. Apart from a small group of young workers who consider checks a new status symbol, few workers have signed up. Few wage earners in Britain have ever had checking accounts, and many do not fully understand just how they work; be sides, the average worker has a prejudice...
...husband and wife, Pierre and Maria, are driving through Spain to Madrid, accompanied by a young girl, Claire, who is not yet Pierre's mistress but who plainly will be as soon as they can slip off to a hotel room. A violent thunderstorm forces them to stop for the night in a small town 150 miles short of Madrid. There they learn that a double murder has been committed; a young husband has found his wife in bed with another man and in accordance with the local code of honor has shot them both...