Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues as "who will win the pennant this year" or "which beer holds its head the longest," why should he resent Mom's wearing the rather heavy mantle of responsibility which rightfully should rest on his shoulders? Especially since most of us would welcome the opportunity to again slip into something more comfortable...
...scholarship to the school at the Old Vic, followed that with four kick-about years in various rep companies. "It was rehearse all morning," she remembers, "ride the bus in the afternoon, help put up the sets, iron your own costume, slip out for a meal, give a performance, and ride the bus home at 2 a.m. That was our whole life, and it's all I wanted. I needed it. Behind five wigs and four noses, as in the Old Vic parts, it was fine. But to show myself as I am-I simply wasn't equipped...
Unashamed at her own unwed state (she lost seven jobs as a maid because she "used to slip out of the house at night and make love"), Carolina is scornful of men. "Today is Father's Day," she wrote. "What a ridiculous...
...automobiles and wash dishes. Some of them even fight disease. But when their usefulness is ended, they often find their way-as waste-into the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors...
...amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce the skeleton from this debile bundle of meat...