Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that no-trespassing order keep me from going to the park with my little boy and shagging a few fly balls now and then?" Hanes, a onetime football and baseball star at nearby Birmingham-Southern College, smiled. "If it were me and my boy, I think I just might slip right over rather than deny that boy of mine the sort of pleasures I used to know." At the end of the two-hour meeting the mayor remained adamant. "I don't think any of you want a nigger mayor or a nigger police chief," he said...
...became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...
Scars & Scrapes. Physically, Sarah is a boyish slip of a girl-5 ft. 6 in., 96 Ibs. But the flappy ears are no longer a problem, since she had them bobbed at 14, and her dark brown hair tumbles over the left of her big blue-green eyes in a fetching...
...showing at 2 Divinity Avenue last Wednesday. Leacock's two movies are not merely experiments, but fully conceived works of art with big implications for movie-makers and actors, since Leacock has found a way to make "the method" obsolete. His camera handles so easily that he can slip unobtrusively into private conversations and capture unguarded sequences directly from life. He never has to worry about motivation because everything he films is naturally motivated; he just records selectively from what he sees...
...Blow-by is Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out through a vent into the surrounding atmosphere...