Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
...long bones in the lower leg). Side swing of the heel throws all the muscles and tendons of the foot out of balance. "Since the tendons act as slings for the 26 bones of the foot," reasons Dr. Schwartz, "those bones then have a tendency to slip out of their anatomical arrangement...
...last week it was discovered that four grey-haired drudges had found a way to eke out their $30-per-week pay. They had been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package of currency contained fewer bills than the number marked on the attached teller's slip, the four old checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill or two they pocketed the difference, marked the stack O.K. So rare and trifling were the tellers' mistakes from which they profited that it was a long time before their superiors grew suspicious. Then...
...Surrogate allowed her to write out her testimony on a slip of paper. It turned out that she found the will among papers of Green Estates, Inc., the family management firm. Then Lawyer Pennypacker showed Mrs. Wilks two letters found in her brother's hotel apartment after his death. Both of them were reputedly written by old Hetty Green to Son Ned. One of them dictated the terms of the disputed 1908 will. Asked if the letters were in Hetty's handwriting, Mrs. Wilks replied...
Disguised in turn as an Indian healer, a Persian Dervish, a Pathan, Burton escaped five bandit raids, performed the complicated Moslem rituals letter-perfect (a slip-up meant being crucified), did not return to England to capitalize on his fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland...