Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth of Eve. "I sat at my desk for days, thinking-how do I do that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...
Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...
...year-old Laurence was the star. She swept to the American ladies' singles title, and then recovered from a first-round slip to capture the North American championship. Laurence was a very popular and pretty girl, with a dazzling smile, and her picture on the cover of the Feb. 13 Sports illustrated won many admires...
...Committee would probably just as well abolish the requirement completely, but then it would seem that we didn't care about language training, and we would be forgetting about students who try to slip by with a minimum of work...
...Inauguration ceremonies Friday came the following slip of the tongue from a harried and wind-blown Robert Frost: "I wish to dedicate this poem to the President-elect, John...Finley...