Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public session, the Council met for a mere 22 minutes. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci tried to slip by his colleagues a motion calling for a 10 per cent raise in all city salaries. Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler weakened the motion by changing its wording...
...winless in their last nine outings, will be going all out to pull an upset for the Winter Carnival crowd that will fill every inch of small Davis Rink. But the Crimson has too much at stake and has been working too hard to let this one slip away as happened a week ago at Princeton...
...melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
Governor John Volpe's new $728 million budget provides badly needed funds for education and mental health facilities in Massachusetts. But Volpe's plans will depend on revenue from a proposed three percent sales tax and the Governor has failed six times to slip his tax bill past the Democratic-controlled Massachusetts legislature. Unless the governor's seventh try for the sales tax turns out to be the lucky one, few of the proposed improvements will ever be realized...
...defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels to get away; those who are captured and interrogated try to convince their captors that they are loyal peasants...