Word: slipping
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...lite Punahou prep school in Honolulu, he was one of only seven or eight black students. He found himself filled with a creeping rage for the assumptions his classmates made about him. At the same time, he was terrified by a sense of not belonging. "I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds," he wrote, "convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would eventually cohere...
...find what they needed to put their indignation on speed dial. The Bush campaign's rapid-response team discovered remarks Kerry had made to a local Wisconsin TV station during those interviews by satellite, reiterating the criticism he had been making for months that Bush had let bin Laden slip away at Tora Bora. The Bushies cried foul and had Bush do so in his last speech of the day. "It's the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking," said Bush. "It is especially shameful in the light of a new tape from America's enemy." But did Americans agree...
...your shelf, overflowing with equations and philosophical principles? Well, hate to break it to you, but all of those expos papers you passed in at 4:59 P.M. aren’t going to help you graduate. You forgot to write the most important paper of all: your diploma slip...
These were the lone two slip-ups for Wheeler who, starting for unspecified reasons in place of Colgate regular Rebecca Lahar, minded the net admirably on the evening. She finished with 31 saves, and used her 5’10 frame to stuff various attacks from the vaunted Crimson forwards...
Though Stipe’s face clearly showed the marks of age, he looked smart and alert, constantly taking in everything yet letting very little slip. The rest of the band took their cues from the frontman. They seemed to start off almost a little weary and subdued (leaving questions about the absence of Peter Buck’s signature guitar poses), but soon enough Buck himself was leaping in the air, and bassist Mike Mills was smiling beatifically beneath his ever-wilder hair...