Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carr converted a B.C. slip-up at 2:53 of the second period. Three Crimson skaters and the puck got behind the deepest Eagle and goalie George McPhee couldn't touch Carr's well placed shot...
Aside from these mechanical slip-ups, however, the second letter was far less clearly and forcefully written than the first. Long and rambling, it questioned the government's willingness to accept genuine negotiations that would inevitably produce something considerably short of victory. "We do not know what kind of solution other than 'military' our own government feels it could accept," the letter said...
...roast pork and sugared apricots. It is also a time of homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet Cong are expected to take leave of their units and slip back to their native villages and families for a brief reunion...
There in the Hudson River off Manhattan lay the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest (at 83,673 tons) ocean liner. Not a tugboat was on hand to ease her 1,031-ft. length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide...
Schlesinger also argues that the U.S. should devote its resources more to "clear-and-hold" operations aimed at creating secure areas, than to "search-and-destroy missions, which drive the Viet Cong out of villages one day and permit them to slip back the next." But he fails to note that no clear-and-hold strategy can succeed as long as guerrillas are permitted to terrorize the countryside-and it is the search-and-destroy sweeps that keep them...