Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seems that in the bill is a teensy clause authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to "develop and construct a civil supersonic transport." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) who helped slip the seven words into the bill isn't sure what they mean; neither is the chief counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee who wrote...
...idolization of outdated doctrinal formulas. The experience of church history is that every definition is a spiritual agony-man's ever impossible attempt to capture infinite mystery in finite words. "Words strain," as T. S. Eliot wrote, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still...
...allies could unite in opposition. The "Red Guards" could disrupt that timetable. Last week they were ripening a banana scandal, charging that government officials had accepted $60,000 for favors to banana importers. Though he seemed confident of his footing, those 60,000 skins could still cause Sato to slip...
...problem with GILP is not so much slip-shod administration, though there is some, but rather that the whole plan is tailored to fit political demands and not students' needs...
...Hollywood in a Morton Downey tenor or cheerfully playing straight man to the Kennedy wit. "Grand Old Lovable," was Kennedy's name for his pal, and Fay strove to deserve it. One day at church the President, who rarely carried any money, leaned over to his friend. "Slip me at least a ten," he whispered to Fay. "I want them to know this is a generous President." Grand Old Lovable obliged...