Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital punishment as "an insult to civilized society," Bailey said that some one like Albert DeSalvo -- the 'Boston Strangler' -- should be studied, not killed. "DeSalvo," Bailey said, "gives psychiatrists a rare chance to study the mentality of an irrational killer, and the doctors should not let the chance slip away...
...aesthetic consequences of what they are doing." Walking down the new three-foot-wide sidewalk on the west side of Palmer Street, he demonstrates his point by pretending to collide with the No Parking sign planted squarely in the middle of the walk and then by trying to slip between the building and a truck parked in the street. "As long as you have people who can spend thousands of dollars to build a sidewalk like this," he declared, "all the experts and all the activists in the world won't make the city amore pleasant place to live...
...Brotherism. Sherburne made one little slip. He broke his secrecy pledge to confess the CIA connection to one of his staff men-red-bearded. New Leftist Michael Wood, 24, from California's Pomona College. Wood insisted that Sherburne make a dramatic public renunciation of the CIA ties. Sherburne refused, arguing reasonably enough that the relationship was about to end and that nothing would be gained by stirring up a storm. Wood compiled a 50-page letter to Ramparts, which then embarked on a two-month investigation of the CIA-N.S.A. liaison...
Only "Stagnation." The critical question is whether the inventory shrinkage, which is spotty so far, will widen into a sharp downtrend before easier credit and federal deficit spending again pump up business-and prices. Many economists expect the inventory gain to slip to an annual rate of about $9.5 billion during the first three months of this year. Even so, few predict anything worse for the economy than what Leon Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, calls "a period of stagnation." With federal, state and local government spending on the rise, with housing starting...
...word travels fast around the league. Opponents enter matches determined not to let him get the cradle. They cross their legs at the ankles--this is while they're on the mats of course--or they struggle to keep him from locking his hands if he does manage to slip his arm around their...