Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling in Canadian affairs. In Winnipeg, Man., he appeared beneath a banner urging "Vote Canadian, Vote Conservative," a slogan thought up by a local Esso dealer and described by a Tory strategist "as the only way of being anti-American without letting your slip show...
...sideline at the Chicago Daily News Relays, trim, balding Track Coach Mihaly Igloi stood with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand...
After 53 years of following all the rules, Bank President Harris Filmore made a slip and was sentenced to ten years for fraud. It cost him his wife, his twelve-room house in Westchester and the approval of his peers. He is sent to grim Audton prison, where, as Convict 3355, Filmore is closeted with assorted thieves, rapists and murderers...
Caldwell's greatest talent lies in his ability to rescue from the ordinary whatever humor, whatever unexpected might otherwise slip by into the hour-after-hour sameness of the past. He finds wisdom even in an encounter with a hitchhiker, praises the man's courage to live by bumming ("I take my hat off to you mister") and generally disconcerts the degenerate by taking him so seriously. "My father brought to conversations a cavernous capacity for caring that dismayed strangers," Peter relates. "They found themselves involved, willy-nilly, in a futile but urgent search for the truth...
Jane Powell (Madame Irma) evinces an erratic but professional competence. Often she speaks with elegance, or at least worldly majesty. But at other times, frequently at crucial points in the script, she lets a sentence or two slip away unemphasized. This may result from justifiable boredom with some of her more portentously extravagant lines...