Word: slipping
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...rising quite as fast as in many other places in the world. That may sound odd, but the simple expansion of water as it warms is complicated by local wind and current patterns. Beyond that, changes in the height of land masses as soils compact or tectonic plates slip and slide can offset--or magnify--sea-level changes...
...five years Nancy Friday has carried in her wallet a tiny slip of paper that reads: "In jealousy there is more self-love than love." Like so many other examples of pithy wrongheadedness, that fragment of portentousness was discovered inside a Chinese fortune cookie. Friday, the author of My Mother/ My Self and two books on sexual fantasies, kept the message because jealousy was beginning to obsess her. "As much as I needed love and men," she says, "as soon as I fell in love with one, I would be afraid of losing him, and I didn't understand...
...Crimson built a hard-fought 3-0 lead in the opener, but let the margin slip away down the stretch and eventually fell by one in the first extra stanza on a controversial call...
Luckily, each member had an extra pair of black dance pants to pair with their tops. They spent Thursday afternoon cutting risque choreography from their routine, hoping no one would accidentally slip into the moves they’d memorized over the last four months...
...just ask any ECAC hockey player who has tried to stop Andrew Lederman on the power play, or who has tried to pick a fight with Dylan Reese in the defensive zone, or who has tried to slip the puck past Dov Grumet-Morris in the crease, and they’ll all tell you the same thing...