Word: slipping
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...almost always chosen the ground and the time of battle. But at Gettysburg he found his enemy there ahead of him and in the best position. Lee's stubbornness and his belief in his cause led him to attack despite the caution of those who wanted to slip away and fight the battle on their terms...
...screening tests, approved earlier this year, will help stop the spread of AIDS through contaminated blood (142 Americans have contracted AIDS from blood transfusions). The tests, recently put into use at blood banks throughout the U.S., are less than perfect, however. Researchers fear that some infected blood samples could slip through undetected. Says Curran: "We don't know how big a problem that...
Harvard let the fourth game slip away as well. On the strength of junior middle hitter Seamus McKiernan—who led the team with 29 kills, 15 digs, and five blocks on the night—the Crimson started off the frame passing and hitting well...
Many Harvard undergraduates, it seems, go horribly off track right off the bat with the College’s perennial favorites. First years endure backaches courtesy of Sanders Theatre’s wooden benches to snooze through Ec 10. Others slip through the cracks in worthy—but huge—classes such as Justice. Still others confuse remote, if interesting, subject matter for the foundational ideas they seek (ahem, Fairy Tales, ahem...
Skating 4-on-4 midway through the opening period, Du threaded a leading pass to Maki through the neutral zone that allowed him to slip behind two UNH defenders and skate in on Wildcats netminder Kevin Regan. As he was hauled down from behind, Maki wound up for a booming wrist shot, which he managed to fling into the top left corner of the net just before crashing to the ice at 9:26, staking the Crimson to a 1-0 lead...