Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate student was followed to the other end of the bridge by one of the youths who attacked him as he reached the B-School side of the River. The graduate school student yelled for help and managed to slip from his coat and flee...
...clear "Happy Valley" next door to the west, while Vietnamese marines and army battalions closed in from the coast. But as all too often in the frustrating war, there was virtually nobody home. Even where the enemy is decisively smashed, unless allied troops stay, the V.C. soon slip back...
...their plans for private busing. Committees set up at the earlier meeting had compiled a list of vacant seats available in various Boston schools. According to a 15-year-old school department policy, any Boston child can enroll in any Boston school with vacancies, once he gets a transfer slip from his neighborhood principal. Since the urban white districts tend to have an older population than the Negro areas, they frequently have vacant places in their schools...
...Some 30 miles northwest of Saigon, the 173rd Airborne, together with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, struck back into the "Iron Triangle" combed by allied forces only three weeks ago. The first operation encountered few V.C., but the guerrillas love to slip back into an area recently "cleared," and so this time the allies were double-checking with lethal thoroughness. Twice B-52s from Guam pounded the Triangle's rain forest and rubber trees. When the Airborne moved in, they carried tear gas-to protect the innocent as well as to flush...
...seldom heard from again. In 1947 she showed up on TV as Mrs. Hush, the mystery guest on Truth or Consequences. In 1960 she made news by writing Hedda Hopper: "I slip my old crown of It Girl not to Taylor or Bardot but to Monroe...