Word: slipping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after a shaky third quarter that saw Harvard’s lead slip away, O’Hagan even managed to complete the first fourth-quarter comeback of his career when he found senior receiver Ryan Tyler over the middle for a 48-yard touchdown pass...
...Flashes of defiance and anger raise suspicions. "Hey, flex-cuff 'em," orders a Green Beret. Chemical swabs read positive for explosives on two of the men. Masked informants identify three--all brothers--as snipers, the other two as a rocket-propelled-grenade team. Across the battlefield, insurgents attempting to slip out of Sarai mix with civilians. Five dressed as women are snared, one with fake breasts. Others force children to hold their hands as though they are family. Some are caught; others are not. An intelligence officer says al-Qaeda is slipping to the east and behind them...
Spurred on by its strong defense, the Big Red will slip past Bucknell by a field goal, sending the Bison home with their third straight three-point defeat...
...league. Some seasons, however, one of the two squads will get tripped up, despite the talent disparity, and drop some winnable games. But it’s exceedingly rare—the 1999 season comes to mind—for both of the league’s giants to slip up at the same time...
...Gaza is in security chaos. Last week's assassination of Moussa Arafat, a nephew of Yasser Arafat and a security chief seen as deeply corrupt, showed the precipitous slip into fraternal violence that seriously threatens Abbas's hold on the Strip. This week, the mobs that burned the abandoned Israeli synagogues in the evacuated settlements illustrated how little control Abbas has over the situation in Gaza. There were Palestinian troops around the settlements, but they didn't prevent the riots...